Of all the ways Florida could blow through $1.25 billion in federal recovery funds, a bullet train is certainly the flashiest.
Connecting Tampa, Orlando and Miami by high-speed rail is a scheme that's been chugging around for decades, and the prospects for profitability are the same today as they always were: Nil.
The money delivered by President Barack Obama last week in Tampa should have come with a note: “Here's a gift from Uncle Sam. Now go build yourselves something you can't possibly afford to operate.''
Read Carl Hiaasen's full column here
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