Sen. Paula Dockery admits she is more than a little annoyed. During one of the state's worst budget years in recent memory, she is once again compelled to fight a $641 million deal to buy 61 miles of track from CSX for a commuter rail system. ...more

March 27, 2009

Says she'll also fight for education to be 'fully funded.' ...more

March 26, 2009

State Sen. Paula Dockery failed Wednesday to limit the state's legal liability in a deal to buy CSX Transportation rail corridors for publicly financed commuter rail projects. ...more

March 5, 2009

The Florida Department of Transportation has hit another obstacle in its attempts to get started on the Central Florida commuter rail project. ...more

February 4, 2009

A multimillion dollar deal with CSX Transportation could face problems in the Legislature in 2009 as lawmakers try to plug a growing budget gap. ...more

December 24, 2008

House and Senate negotiators reached a deal Tuesday on a major railroad safety reform bill that will require new technology to prevent crashes and limit hours engineers can work. ...more

September 24, 2008

The engineer of a commuter train ran through a red light and never hit his brakes in the final moments before last week's fatal collision with an oncoming freight train, authorities said. ...more

September 18, 2008

Federal officials investigating a commuter rail collision that killed 25 people said Sunday that they were looking into a report that an engineer blamed for running a stop signal before the crash may have been text messaging around the same time. ...more

September 15, 2008

A commuter train thought to have been carrying up to 350 people during the afternoon rush collided with a freight train Friday, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and trapping an unknown number of others in a mangled passenger car imploded by the train's own engine. ...more

September 13, 2008

Florida plans to spend $45 million to buy commuter railcars from a company whose investors ousted its president recently amid production problems at its manufacturing plant. ...more

July 20, 2008