The Orlando to Tampa High Speed Rail Line is on a list of the first 21 infrastructure projects that the Obama administration should fund with the additional $50 billion for infrastructure announced earlier this week.
The list which was prepared by the North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum, ranks infrastructure projects based on certain criteria including, contribution to local productivity, job creation, business opportunity and energy productivity, among others.
Estimated to cost $2.6 billion, Florida has already been awarded $1.25 billion in federal stimulus money for the high speed rail project and received at the end of May 2010, $66 million.
