A federal requirement for a new study of the effect of running more freight trains through Polk County could delay a commuter rail project at the center of the state's multimillion deal with CSX Transportation. ...more

February 15, 2008

A new catch emerged Wednesday in the state's nearly half-billion-dollar deal with CSX Transportation. ...more

February 9, 2008

Sometimes the grass in the medians on U.S. 301 grows waist high. And forget about the garbage. ...more

February 4, 2008

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum should scrutinize the cozy relationship between state transportation officials and the railroad industry that is being given hundreds of millions of dollars in state funds. ...more

January 25, 2008

State Rep. Ed Homan said Wednesday that he plans to file legislation to stop Florida from paying CSX Transportation for railroad crossing maintenance and flagmen on public road projects. ...more

January 24, 2008

Jim O'Neill seemed to speak for about 200 other Pasco County residents when he addressed county and state officials about construction on County Road 54, west of Interstate 75. ...more

January 15, 2008

Dense fog rolled in so quickly early Wednesday morning that troopers patrolling Interstate 4 never had time to close the road before a series of crashes that killed four people and injured 38 others, a highway patrol spokesman said. ...more

January 11, 2008

What the railroad wants, the railroad gets. That seems to be Florida's policy since the state has doled out millions to six of these privately run businesses to improve their tracks. ...more

January 7, 2008

Hear Our Cries This sorrowful update to our numerous pleadings, since 1999, for a caution light and a turn lane in both directions at the intersection of Lanier Road and State Road 54 just west of Zephyrhills has so far gone unrequited. ...more

January 6, 2008

The Heartland Parkway has a pulse again. The state Department of Transportation recently committed $5.5 million to study one segment of the proposed toll highway - the part running through Polk County. ...more

December 29, 2007