By The Editorial Board, Palm Beach Post; May 30, 2018
In 2000, Florida voters approved a high-speed rail project connecting Miami to Tampa with a 53-percent majority, only to see then-Gov. Jeb Bush embark on a four-year campaign to kill it. He succeeded in 2004 by frightening voters into thinking it would be too costly.
In 2011, Gov. Rick Scott followed suit by turning down $2.4 billion in funding from the Obama administration to build an 85-mile, Tampa-to-Orlando high-speed rail line based on an unproven claim that cost overruns related to the proposed line could leave Florida taxpayers stuck with a $3 billion tab.
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