Here’s when shared SunRail/Brightline Sunshine Corridor could debut, with help of proposed tax hike

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Commuter train SunRail could see its shared corridor with Brightline intercity passenger train come to fruition by 2035 if Orange County’s proposed transportation sales tax is approved.

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The Sunshine Corridor — which could include stops at Orlando International Airport, Orange County Convention Center and South International Drive near Walt Disney World Resort — is part of a $12.3 billion plan in transportation projects envisioned under a 20-year plan for the proposed tax. Lynx CEO Tiffany Homler Hawkins presented the projects during an April 9 Orange County Commission meeting on the tax to determine the rate and time period it could be levied. The commission stopped for a lunch break shortly before 2 p.m., with plans to reconvene at 2:15 p.m. today to vote on the rate and time period.

The county would have a $6.8 billion share of the investment in transit through the tax.

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