No One Asked For An Overpass

Was this statement a serious one? Must a drowning man ask to be saved? Click title for story link. Posted by Bill Rufty on February 14, 2008 1:50:35 PM A CSX official told The Ledger Editorial Board today that the cities of Waldo and Ocala will get overpasses in the wake of increased train traffic from its new freight terminal in Winter Haven, but not Lakeland because "The City of Lakeland never asked ..." It never did, various local officials said, but not necessarily because there was disinterest in running roads over or under the train tracks. "My understanding from the Ocala mayor when he came here last month is that was because Ocala and Waldo were taken care of by the Florida Department of Transportation before Lakeland officials were even notified of the (ILC project and increased trains),'' Lakeland City Commissioner Gow Fields said. "He also told us that the mitigation still wasn't adequate for his city.''