claim: high-speed rail would have cost florida taxpayers $1 billion to build.
author: rick scott
evidence_1: aug 16, 2018 ... scott said in june he believes a high-speed rail line from orlando to tampa is a  good idea. ... fortress investment group is the parent company of florida east  coast .... passenger rail system," the financing heavily involved taxpayers. ...  costs for building the line from miami to orlando would be $1 billion but ...
evidence_2: apply for high-speed rail grants out of the $8 billion in stimulus ... bring the cost  close to $1 trillion. .... the fare, while all other taxpayers would share the cost.
evidence_3: jun 22, 2018 ... state officials will consider private bids to build a high-speed rail link ... where the  rail would go, how many stops it would have and the cost of a ride are ... and that  florida taxpayers would have been on the hook for $1 billion.
evidence_4: jun 10, 2016 ... it's taking a huge gamble that high speed rail is a concept whose time has come.  ... brightline raised $1 billion in equity and debt to launch the first phase of the rail  ... a second phase to send trains to orlando will cost another $1.5 billion ... be  trying to build its own high speed rail, funded by taxpayers, with a ...
evidence_5: may 11, 2011 ... florida taxpayers were spared their state's share of maintaining the ... instead,  the department of transportation gave nearly $1 billion of the $2.4 billion to  amtrak ... the full cost of financing hsr in their state, they would likely reject it. ...  but as a cato essay on high-speed rail explains, “high-speed rail would ...