St. Pete Times Opinion: How not to muff the Super Bowl says the effort should be a regional one, and officials should reach out to the Gulf Beaches and Orlando (and presumably, Largo, Lutz, Thonotosassa, Lakeland, and Haines City). Of course they also expect Tampa to do most of the work, and implore the city to make sure residents are not disaffected in any way:
People who live and work here should not be unduly inconvenienced going about their normal lives – getting to work, their homes and the usual places.
Ha! With well over 100,000 folks coming from out of the region, the Times hopes that we locals will just be able to go about our business. Fat Chance.
Addison
2 years ago
Yeah, lived in Houston during Superbowl there, you will notice, and you will become violent.
Mal Carne
2 years ago
I lived at Kennedy and N/S Boulevard during the last Gasparilla-Super Bowl Combo. I couldn’t leave my house by car from Friday to Monday. The roads are no better, so I can’t quite comprehend how this will not happen again.
David Jenkins
2 years ago
Hell, I am inconvenienced for the three months of excess this city calls Gasparilla.
Is in necessary to have a day parade, a night parade and a childrens’ parade spread out over two months? And all the other satellite events? Couldn’t we just really bang this out all in one week?
Bookend it with New Years and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and my wife is right – we’ll take any excuse we can get to march drunk down 7th Avenue. And I guess people want as much mileage as possible out of those expensive pirate get-ups.