April 28, 2010 Please contact our city commissioners after reading this. First the great news! The Commuter Rail Commission has confirmed that the state will now be picking up nearly half of the previously projected costs of operating Winter Park’s SunRail station (Note #1). When we voted in 2007 to authorize the city commission to pay for our commuter rail station and its operation, the annual costs were estimated at $587,000 per year (Note #2). Revised projections near the end of 2007 put these estimates at roughly $700,000 per year (Note #3). With the latest changes in funding and pending…
Category: Commuter Rail
Threats to Commuter Rail
Carolyn Cooper and Beth Dillaha have worked to kill commuter rail for years. Cooper walked door to door to get signatures to put commuter rail on the ballot in 2007 with the hope of killing Winter Park’s participation. When she lost that vote she claimed the voters were not asked the right questions (questions she helped to write). Cooper helped Beth Dillaha get elected in 2008. Dillaha faked support for commuter rail with the voters, and then immediately went to work trying to kill it after she was elected. Dillaha tried to kill the commuter rail agreement with Orange County…
David Strong and Political Reality
Our resident anti-growth militant Beth Dillaha has been trying to kill the Central Florida Commuter Rail initiative and Winter Park’s participation in it for years. If you did not know this it is because she intentionally hid her motives from you. Dillaha has been consuming endless hours of City Commission time for months since her election, predominantly on trying to gin up public support against the existing commuter rail agreement with Orange County. Well, Dillaha finally got her chance to call for a vote to terminate the commuter rail agreement on Monday, January 26, 2009 and it failed 3 to…
Commuter Rail Update – Fall 2008
(Originally sent to the Winter Park City Commission September 18, 2008) (Commissioner Beth Dillaha attempted to terminate the commuter rail agreement with Orange County on January 26, 2009 (pg 10). The vote failed 3 to 2.) The facts and circumstances included here relating to the commuter rail agreement between the City of Winter Park and Orange County have been reviewed for accuracy with the Winter Park City Manager. The opinions expressed here are of course mine and mine alone. Commissioner Beth Dillaha’s commuter rail presentation at the September 8, 2008 City Commission meeting re-addressed known risks and possible costs associated…