We often complain about the lack of pedestrian safety here in the Bay area. But it doesn’t do much good. After we learned that Tampa Bay ranks second in pedestrian danger, and we noticed that the top four most dangerous places are in Florida, USA Today breaks out a state-by-state graphic with an unsurprising headline: Florida remains the [...]
Tampa International Airport Executive Director Louis Miller cringed at questions about international flights, didn't care to converse with board members about an office building, bypassed variance boards in zoning, and violated sunshine laws. Miller has been doing whatever he wanted for fourteen years, completely avoiding questions from anyone. And now you expect him to tell us why he's leaving? Good luck with that.
When I was 15, I couldn’t wait to get my drivers’ license. Most of us looked forward to getting that little card that suggested we were growing up. Now, it seems that teenagers don’t really care so much about driving. Statistics from the Federal Highway Administration show that one in every three teens now [...]
Tampa City Council member Linda Saul-Sena wants a map with the best routes for biking to the new Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, so she asked the transportation staff to come up with one. Transportation manager Jean Dorzbackof said that they ain’t got no money, are swamped with other things, and they will “get to it [...]
Walkable Tampa The Tampa Bay area is not a very safe for pedestrians. According to a recent report, the bay area ranks second in pedestrian danger. Check out the Transportation For America ยป Dangerous By Design report: The most dangerous metropolitan areas in the U.S. for walking in 2007-2008 were: Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Memphis, [...]
President Barack Obama will be in Tampa in just a few hours to give the State of Florida $1.25 billion for high-speed rail. The effort is expected to create 23,000 jobs in Florida over four years, and will likely energize several local light rail efforts, including the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority (TBARTA). [...]
The printed edition of the St. Pete Times (story not found online) says Clearwater gets more than $4 million a year from 3,000 parking meters, while St. Pete gets $891,000 (1,450 meters) and Tampa collects $1,000,000 from 1,600. Each of the three cities issue over 30,000 parking tickets at $20 to $25 per pop, too. [...]
When turning right, we hardly see anyone actually stop for the red light. Temple Terrace is using red light cameras and fines to dissuade us from rolling on through, and they find that about 90% of their camera citations are for right turners.
The St. Pete Times says USF's Center of Urban Transportation Research has become decidedly anti-rail, and wonder if that stance is based on money they receive from Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) initiatives, and other pro-road organizations,
