TAKEPLACE: RICK SCOTT REJECTS FLORIDA'S HIGH SPEED RAIL MONEY

Saturday, February 19, 2011

RICK SCOTT REJECTS FLORIDA'S HIGH SPEED RAIL MONEY

On Wednesday, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced his decision to reject $2.4 billion in federal high-speed rail funding that would've gone towards a proposed Orlanda-to-Tampa line.

The Infrastructurist has the details of the governor's decision. (Long story short: It's cynical political posturing.) Some are saying, "to heck with Florida. Show us their money. We'll build that rail." GOOD

No comments:

Post a Comment

TakePlace was made with you in mind It's about ideas and innovation, creative perspectives, and solutions. We're advocates for change, because change needs friends. We explore complex systems, adaptive agents, modeling, simulation, artificial life, and complex (information, biological, and social) networks. We especially focus on the Web as a complex information network in which we leave abundant traces of our social and semantic activities: what we do, what we are interested in, whom we talk to, what knowledge we acquire and contribute. Our research spans from modeling the dynamic processes that occur on the Web (how information networks grow and evolve, how individual and collective traffic patterns emerge, how attention bursts are generated and shaped by social and search tools) to designing tools that mine the Web to build better search, navigation, management, and recommendation tools (where ‘better’ means more intelligent, autonomous, robust, personalized, contextual, scalable, adaptive, and so on).