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Sunshine Corridor: still a $6M study on paper as Brightline lines up bankruptcy financing
noted Aug 27, 2026
The rail link from Orlando International Airport to the convention center and I-Drive remains in its $6 million environmental study, approved in April 2025 and running into 2027 — no track has been laid and no construction funding is committed. Meanwhile Brightline, the private railroad meant to share those tracks and extend them to Tampa, signed a deal August 26 for at least $350 million in bankruptcy financing from Assured Guaranty, with a Chapter 11 filing possible within weeks. Trains keep running through a reorganization, but the Tampa extension now has no funding, no start date, and a would-be builder in restructuring.
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