Non-existent trackage on NARP/RPA's Vision Map?

[TML]

When I looked at the Vision map from NARP/RPA containing their proposed expansion routes and compared them to existing trackage from Google Maps and/or state track maps, it seems to me that one particular segment in the map - the route from Tampa south to Naples via St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Punta Gorda, and Ft. Myers - apparently no longer exists in its entirety (in other words, some of this trackage appears to have been pulled at certain points). Is it really true that any hypothetical restoration of passenger rail service from Tampa south to Ft. Myers would require re-laying some tracks previously pulled?

 

[cirdan]

I am not familiar with the location. But if this is the type of trackage used to serve maybe a local industrial spur or two with rickety track and and crazy low speed restrictions, they would probably be looking into relaying new track anyway before passenger service can commence. So it wouldn't really make much of a difference is some bits are missing, as long as no land has been disposed off or given to other uses.

 

[BlackDiamond]

From looking at the OpenRailwayMap it looks like much of the route has been built upon south of Bonita Springs including housing developments and an airport. They may have to find a new route into Naples.

Also, I don't see how a route from Tampa to Naples could go through St. Petersburg given that it is on a peninsula on the other side of the bay.