Has anyone noticed over the past six months that Florida East Coast Industries freight train numbers, length and horn/track noise are increasing, now one train per hour all night long? The five-year plan to increase FEC freight traffic by 12 trains per day and doubling their lengths has begun. Soon there will be 22 or more two-mile-long freight trains in addition to 32 All Aboard Florida high-speed trains per day. This will increase crossing closure times by an hour per day at 340 crossings. The plan to industrialize our beautiful paradise vacation and retirement coastal region is alive in the name of economic development and corporate enrichment. But did you know that in Florida Statutes Title XXVI Chapter 341 Section 302 the Florida Department of Transportation is required to work closely with all affected communities along an impacted freight rail corridor to identify and address anticipated impacts associated with an increase in freight rail traffic due to implementation of passenger rail, and coordinate and facilitate the relocation of railroads from congested urban areas to non-urban areas when relocation has been determined feasible and desirable from the standpoint of safety, operational efficiency, and economics. It is certainly not apparent how Florida law is being recognized by FDOT in FEC and AAF expansion. Freight traffic expansion must be controlled. Both freight and AAF should be moved west where population and development is minimal. Please write Gov. Rick Scott, Secretary of Transportation Jim Boxold and all our elected officials. Demand that Florida Statute 341.302 be enforced and that FEC freight expansion and AAF be moved west. Please donate to the opposition groups fighting rail expansion on your behalf. It can be stopped, but it requires public outrage and money to counter the corporate power and governmental collusion.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:46:28 +0000
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