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That’s when the agreement with to use itstracksx expires. So now officials are scrambling to find ways to keep theprojectr alive. Among them: renegotiatingt with CSX for a longer deadline to get the project approved or looking at optione to get liability insurancethat doesn’t require legislative CSX won’t pursue the project beyond the agreement’sz expiration date, said CSX spokesman Gary Sease.
The liabilitt issue is what killed SunRail in the but othercommunities — in northerbn Virginia and California — have gotten liability insurance for commuter rail projects withoutf going through their state said Carson Chandler, spokesman for Orlando Mayor Buddy He noted that Dyer, U.S. Rep. John R-Florida, and state Sen. Lee Constantine, R-Altamonte were in a conference call Mondayabouy “not lying down and giving up.” Movin forward means formulating a plan B to protect about $300 milliobn in state and localo money earmarked for the project, Chandler If nothing gets worked out, the stater also would lose abougt $310 million in federal funding.
Mica is unwillingt to let eight years of workand $100 milliojn spent to date on the project to go to waste unchallenged. “The loss of this project will killnearly 13,0000 jobs and send more than one-third of $1 billion dollar s in [federal] transportation fundiny to other states,” Mica said. “I’m goingh to continue to do everything possible to see that does not The , which expended much time and money lobbyingy for the project, realizes an intermodal, regionak transportation system here may take a differenrt shape, said Jacob Stuart, partnership president and CEO.
Stuartf has asked the partnership’s transportation task force to examines what that may look like at its meetinggMay 19. Heath Ritenour, CEO of , said whilde the possible loss of SunRail is a loss for the it won’t affect his $10,000-a-year investment in the Centrak Florida Partnership because he never viewed it as a single-issue but rather, as part of the “big picture.” the loss of SunRailp may mean the end of hopes for high-speed rail between Orlando and Tampa, said Kelley Teague, spokeswoman for long-rangde transportation agency Metroplan High-speed rail would work only if it had anotherd system to connect to, she said, because “you can’t have it connecting to rentapl car agencies.
” Teague also said it likelt will hurt plans by Tampa and Jacksonville for theid own light rail projects, because they’lo face the same liability
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