Before starting the project, Garfield needed access to stateright-of-way along the Bee Line Expressway. The rail system wouldhave linked Orlando, Port Canaveral, Orlando International Airportand International Drive, transporting tourists and commuters fasterand easier among the destination points.
Garfield can appeal the state's decision. The first trains wereoriginally scheduled to run by early 2002. The company laterrevised the opening schedule to late 2004. The levitated system hasbeen tested in Germany for several years but is not operatinganywhere as a transit system.
Similar high-speed rail plans by other developers in 1992 and1994 crumbled also when funding problems and environmental hasslesdisrupted the project.
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