Lakeland Local News and Info from Lakeland Florida » Blog Archive » Senator Dockery’s Letter to Govenor Crist on the Eve of His Announcement
Florida is about to make a hundred-year decision on transportation, similar to the 1950s, when Congress created the interstate highway system and forever changed neighborhoods whose voices were shut out.
The Florida Department of Transportation wants to close a deal with CSX Railroad that would create a freight super-railway through Starke, Ocala, Wildwood, Dade City, Plant City and Lakeland. These communities had no say in the matter – no knowledge it was even being planned – until former Governor Bush announced the deal was done.
