Passenger Trains > FL Transportation Comm to look at BrightLine

An advisory commission will take a look at BrightLine. At the request of State Sen Debbie Mayfield (R) a long time opponent.

Other than screen time, I'm not sure what will be achieved. The feds, the state, Wall Street, and many courts have all plowed this field.

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/shaping-our-future/all-aboard-florida/2020/02/24/virgin-trains-discussed-florida-transportation-commission-rail-safety/4855518002/

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If they ever build a station at Del Boca Vista (phase 2,) I'll move to Florida. 

What is wrong wth these people? The trains are perfectly safe. Not to mention efficient and a pleasure to ride. It's the idiots that can't keep their cars and bodies off the tracks that need to be regulated. Not at all the train or the railroad's fault. 

Let's form a Go Fund Me account for this lady, which she can only use to take her and her grandkids on a Brightline ride!  And then we hope of course that her grandson LOVES trains.........

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> An advisory commission will take a look at
> BrightLine. At the request of State Sen Debbie
> Mayfield (R) a long time opponent.
>
> Other than screen time, I'm not sure what will be
> achieved. The feds, the state, Wall Street, and
> many courts have all plowed this field.
>
> https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/shaping-ou
> r-future/all-aboard-florida/2020/02/24/virgin-trai
> ns-discussed-florida-transportation-commission-rai
> l-safety/4855518002/
>
> Posted from Android

What is there to oppose?
This is a private funded enterprise.

JohnM Wrote:
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> If they ever build a station at Del Boca Vista
> (phase 2,) I'll move to Florida. 

dood your so nineties Phase 7 is taking deposits right now , and I happen to be in charge sales, every one that signs on the Dotted line, gets to do so with  my astronaut pen!

CP8888 Wrote:
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> Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> > An advisory commission will take a look at
> > BrightLine. At the request of State Sen Debbie
> > Mayfield (R) a long time opponent.
> >
> > Other than screen time, I'm not sure what will
> be
> > achieved. The feds, the state, Wall Street, and
> > many courts have all plowed this field.
> >
> >
> https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/shaping-ou
>
> >
> r-future/all-aboard-florida/2020/02/24/virgin-trai
>
> >
> ns-discussed-florida-transportation-commission-rai
>
> > l-safety/4855518002/
> >
> > Posted from Android
>
> What is there to oppose?
> This is a private funded enterprise.

Ms Mayfield represents Indian River County, which has been a hotbed of anti-BrightLine sentiment.  She has opposed the state and federal bonding assistance, what IRC described as a "rushed" environmental study, etc.  Her work on the subject has been chronicled here on TO for a decade.

She may not be able to stop the project, but she can slow it considerably.

Republicans don't like trains...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA