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Editorial: Florida Senate approves a sensible toll road bill. The House should follow.


Editorial: Florida Senate approves a sensible toll road bill. The House should follow.
Palm Beach Post Editorial Board
© BRAD McCLENNY/GAINESVILLE SUN
Ron Caldi, a staff member with the Florida Department of Transportation, talks with a resident about the Suncoast Connector highway project during an open house in Trenton on Sept. 29.
It’s not very often that we can put the words “Florida Legislature” and “sensible” in the same sentence. Not when state lawmakers are in the habit of pushing legislation making it harder to vote or constricting the powers of local governments. The Florida Senate’s passage of SB 100 is a most unusual exception to the rule. ....

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Fla. Senate OK's a sensible toll road bill


Fla. Senate OK s a sensible toll road bill
Palm Beach Post Editorial Board
© BRAD McCLENNY/GAINESVILLE SUN
Ron Caldi, a staff member with the Florida Department of Transportation, talks with a resident about the Suncoast Connector highway project during an open house in Trenton on Sept. 29.
It’s not very often that we can put the words “Florida Legislature” and “sensible” in the same sentence. Not when state lawmakers are in the habit of pushing legislation making it harder to vote or constricting the powers of local governments. The Florida Senate’s passage of SB 100 is a most unusual exception to the rule. ....

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Florida lawmakers walk back on part of controversial toll road project


Florida lawmakers walk back on part of controversial toll road project
Briona Arradondo reports
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state hoped adding toll roads to three parts of the state would help tackle Florida’s growth, but lawmakers aren’t so sure now about the M-CORES program.
I think that there is emerging bipartisan consensus on this issue that this project is way too big and this project is unnecessary, said State Representative Ben Diamond, D-District 68 in Pinellas County, who introduced a bill to fully repeal the project.
Florida lawmakers walked back the controversial toll road project after getting feedback in the fall from rural and environmental communities. The Multi-Use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance (M-CORES) program became a law in 2019, directing the Florida Department of Transportation to add toll roads in three regions. It would expand the Florida Turnpike to the Suncoast Parkway and build from Polk County through Collier County. ....

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