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Orange County, Fla., Taxpayer-Funded Rail Transit Plan Undetermined.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003
By Scott Powers, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 19--If Orange County voters go for a half-cent sales-tax increase to fix roads, they'll also be approving $400 million for a transit system that has yet to be revealed.
The Mobility 20/20 sales-tax referendum would raise $2.6 billion if voters approve it Oct. 7. While most of the money would go toward improving and expanding I-4 and 50 other streets and highways, the second-largest chunk would be used for an unspecified mass-transit plan.
That plan could well be a revival of serious efforts to build a light-rail transit system in the county, four years after the last effort fell in an explosive political fight at the Orange County Commission. Or it...
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