Thad Altman Wants Pam Bondi to Look at All Aboard Florida Lease

Florida Sen. Thad Altman, R-Rockledge, wants answers on All Aboard Floridas lease with the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority. Altman is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi for her opinion on the lease, especially as the senators says the lease ensures All Aboard Floridas trains wont stop in Brevard and Indian River counties.

The practical application is there will never be stops in Brevard and Indian River counties if they have to make up for revenue lost from the tolls not collected due to the decreased automobiles traveling to Orlando, Altman said. That is an extra-territorial tax imposed by the Expressway Authority.

It also concerns me greatly that the citizens of the Space and Treasure coasts are not represented on the Expressway Authority, Altman added. I no longer call it All Aboard Florida but Not Onboard Florida.