U. S. Senator Bill Nelson’s office today announced that Sierra Club’s Florida Green Transportation Campaign welcomes the announcement of additional funding for high speed rail in Florida. The development of a high speed rail network in Florida will help make the state a leader in building the transportation choices Floridians need to help end our dependence oil and protect Florida's beaches from oil drilling and devastating spills.
Investing in 21st century transportation infrastructure will not only create jobs, but will save billions of dollars that Americans send overseas each day to pay for our oil addiction, making high speed rail for Florida a win-win-win for the economy, the environment, and Florida's citizens.
Floridians spend too much time and money stuck in traffic. To move beyond oil and provide Floridians with transportation choices that work, Florida
Sierra Club Florida will work to ensure that high speed rail follows a route that protects Florida
Sierra Club’s Florida Green Transportation Team seeks to secure state and federal administrative transportation policies that will promote low-carbon transportation choices and investments and ensure that reducing greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) become priorities in the allocation of transportation funding.
-----Marti Daltry, Conservation Organizer, Florida Green Transportation Team
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This is exactly what people in Florida needs! We have been paying too much taxes to subsidize people with cars, what about subsidizing us for mass transport. This is a welcome development for everybody.
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