By Scott Powers | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted June 3, 2005
Motorists stuck daily in I-4 traffic might find out this summer if plans for a commuter train running from southern Volusia County to northern Osceola will become a reality.
Commuter rail and other proposals to create mass-transit alternatives to Interstate 4 through greater Orlando have been around for decades, and their prospects have risen, fallen and sometimes crashed over the years.
This plan, which would run along existing railroad tracks and have a dozen stations, is championed by U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park, and could start service by 2009. That timetable needs a critical set of decisions this summer.
"Commuter rail, that's a topic that must be determined, and will be determined, by August of this year," said Seminole County Commissioner Randy Morris, who chairs MetroPlan Orlando's board of directors.
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