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Plan's Defeat Means Orange County, Fla., Leaders Must Seek New Gridlock Fixes.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003
By Scott Powers, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 8--The spectacular implosion of the Mobility 20/20 transportation plan Tuesday will force Orange County and Orlando leaders to find a new way out of the region's gridlock.
But Tuesday night, the political patrons of the half-cent sales tax acknowledged they have no road map.
"There is no Plan B," said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer after results showed the tax had failed by a vote of 54 percent to 46 percent.
That means the county, its cities and the Florida Department of Transportation are stuck with Plan A: a less ambitious slate of improvements in place before the Mobility 20/20 ideas were pitched.
But that plan includes no significant...
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