Goodness Gracious. Whatever one thinks of the outcome of the CSX/High Speed Rail/Tri-Rail/Rail Authority/Sunrail monstrosity that finally romanced its way through Tallahassee last week, can we all agree on the general...

As I was driving home last night, I heard a WUSF report in which Sen. JD Alexander, R-Lake Wales, waxed patriotic about how it’s our duty to support our troops by approving Sunrail. Yes, really. The idea is that the...

You may have seen that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood supposedly said recently that Florida won’t get high speed rail money unless the state senate agrees to CSX’s blackmail payment, eerrr, Sunrail...

I clearly don’t know the back story to any of the most recent negotiations - or whatever they are. But the letters to Sunrail backers from the Federal Transit Authority and from CSX discussing the new developments are...

Some schlub wrote this not long ago: In this economy, CSX will not lightly walk away from more than $600 million in cash and system improvements, liability or no. A commenter expressed some skepticism and asked what I based...

You may have seen this story Thursday in The Ledger: CSX Battle Drained State of $44 million Quite a chunk of change. I’ll let Joe Follick’s story discuss the merits of spending that money in advance of a big...

In this economy, CSX will not lightly walk away from more than $600 million in cash and system improvements, liability or no. FDOT probably still wants to hand that money over to the company. In fact, it’s already done...

Hey, you remember when some schmuck wrote this?: And finally, I now think that if the freight realignment deal goes down, and CSX gets no public money for the hub, it won’t get built – at least for a number of years....

The CSX deal absorbed a giant defeat on the floor of the Florida Senate this evening. See story here. How big? Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer declared: “The forces of evil have won.” Now, this isn’t done....

In the latest effort to ensure it still gets invited to all the good regional cocktail parties if and when the CSX deal goes splat, our Lakeland City Commission – excluding Justin Troller and Howard Wiggs – has...

It’s a big day for the CSX deal, though today’s hearing won’t settle the issue either way. It’s probably more vital for the supporters than opponents. But one way or another, this battle will unfold...

This is all CSX, Jacob Stuart, Buddy Dyer, and the rest of the Orlando cabal need. Their pet freight deal is already teetering on the edge of collapse, and now the Lakeland Chamber has decided, for some reason, to pick this...

On Friday, the Orlando Sentinel’s impeccably fair Dan Tracy (no snark intended) wrote a good state-of-play story on the CSX deal. I’d quibble with a couple of things in the story, but they’re not worth...

No one could have predicted this would happen. As the Orlando Sentinel reports, Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, says his Transportation and Economic Development Committee will not hear the CSX freight realignment bill...