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Central Florida commuter rail - traffic solution or giant boondoggle?
Commuter rail has been big talk around Orlando and Central Florida for several years.  Last year the Florida legislature came so close to approving the rail-line, but things broke down because the attorneys wouldn't tolerate giving CSX Transportation limited liability.  That's actually pretty bizarre considering the Tri-Rail in South Florida and most other similar projects around the country have this limited liability language as standard boiler plate contract language.  After all why would CSX be motivated to sell and leaseback their own rail-line if they didn't have this language built into the lease???  
   
Regardless, this is my big question "Is commuter rail really all it is cracked up to be?"  I certainly realize that in big cities like New York and Washington as well as many other countries that traveling by train is very commonplace.  The big difference between those places and Orlando is that here you can't put the trains underground because of the high water table.  So you end up with a main train line on existing train tracks above ground.  Tracks that have been in place since the day of the Florida cowboy (late 1800's) and don't necessarily represent existing traffic patterns that well.  Granted that much of the train tracks do partially mirror the ... more

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