Risky Proposal For CSX

Click title for link to story Saturday, May 10, 2008 If I don't get my deal, nobody gets anything, said Senate Majority Leader Dan Webster, R-Winter Garden, in the final days of the legislative session. And he got his way, meaning that nobody got anything, meaning that South Florida got stiffed by Tallahassee again on money to run Tri-Rail. In both cases, the issue was mass transit. Sen. Webster's district and all of greater Orlando are choking on car traffic. But the deal Sen. Webster was pushing - that the state spend $650 million to buy 61 miles of CSX track for a commuter rail line - was questionable on many counts. Legislators correctly rejected the plan because it would have made the state liable for accidents even when CSX was at fault.