Teutobergerwald wrote:No stop at Vero Beach ????No stops between WPB and Orlando. I think Vero may have passengers service sometime down the road but not with Brightline at least at the start.
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Teutobergerwald wrote:No stop at Vero Beach ????No stops between WPB and Orlando. I think Vero may have passengers service sometime down the road but not with Brightline at least at the start.
Noel Weaver » Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:28 pmPort St. Lucie and Melbourne make more sense as intermediate stops with their larger populations.
Teutobergerwald wrote:
No stop at Vero Beach ????
No stops between WPB and Orlando. I think Vero may have passengers service sometime down the road but not with Brightline at least at the start
David Benton wrote:Is there not enough potential traffic for at least one daily trip to Jacksonville?.There probably is enough potential for a trip to Jacksonville but the idea behind Brightline is fast, frequent service so one train a day will not do it. I think Jacksonville will be in the cards. It can be done on existing tracks and I think it would be a good market. The present Amtrak station is in a terrible location but I think might well rebuild and reopen the original station which is now a convention center. I think down the road that Brightline will cover much more of Florida including Jacksonville, not right away but eventually.
Rick Scott and wife invested in parent company bidding on Tampa high-speed railDisgusting.
Scott said in June he believes a high-speed rail line from Orlando to Tampa is a good idea. He and his wife last year invested at least $3 million in a credit fund for All Aboard Florida’s parent company, Fortress Investment Group
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By Mary Ellen Klas
As one of his first acts in office in 2011, Gov. Rick Scott canceled a $2.4 billion federally funded and shovel-ready bullet train from Orlando to Tampa because it carried "an extremely high risk of overspending taxpayer dollars with no guarantee of economic growth.''
It was a political slap to then-President Barack Obama, who considered the high-speed rail project central to his infrastructure reinvestment initiative.
Now, the idea has returned — revived by All Aboard Florida, a Coral Gables-based company that has heavily supported Scott — and the governor has reversed course.
Scott said in June he believes a high-speed rail line from Orlando to Tampa is a good idea. He and his wife last year invested at least $3 million in a credit fund for All Aboard Florida's parent company, Fortress Investment Group, according to recently disclosed financial documents.
gokeefe wrote:Nope ... mtuandrew has got it right. This is a conflict of interest (hence why it had to be disclosed) and second government officials are not expected to make significant private investments in for profit corporations subject to their jurisdiction while in office. That's called "profiteering" and is statutory language that describes both unethical and potentially criminal conduct.As long as he discloses all his finances, including dividends from Fortress Investment Group, he meets the legal requirements as an elected official for the state of Florida. Informed citizens have this right to know this before the next election, and take whatever choices they want in the voting booth with his financial choices. There is no requirement in Florida law for the governor to enter a blind trust. The idea that the governor and his family is solely reliant upon his state wages for income is extreme, imho.