Tampa to Orlando passenger rail proposals get changed in the Florida Legislature

A Senate committee Tuesday revised a proposal that could help extend a private passenger-rail system from Orlando to Tampa. A bill (SB 1226) initially would have led to the Florida Department of Transportation setting aside a 44-foot-wide rail corridor in the Interstate 4 right-of-way “to extend to Tampa the existing passenger rail service currently terminating in Orlando.”

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