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Old Posted Jan 18, 2022, 3:32 PM
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I don't know about that but this is a bit of reality for all of the people (including on this forum) who say California can't do anything right with their high speed rail investment. Train service (operating at half the speed of California high speed rail) was supposed to open in 2014 and now it won't start until 2023 at the earliest.

"A little more than a year later, in March 2012, All Aboard Florida first revealed its plans to build the Orlando-to-Miami line without public money. “This privately owned, operated and maintained passenger rail service will be running in 2014, at no risk to Florida taxpayers,” its materials said at the time."

https://www.governing.com/archive/go...rightline.html

As of December 2021, at least 50 people have been killed by Brightline trains, the highest number of fatalities of any railroad in the United States. Additionally, unlike the substantial topography challenges of building high-speed rail in California, the land in Florida is completely flat and Florida East Coast Industries already owns much of the right-of-way.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/b...%2050%20people.
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