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,
The local dailies report that Hillsborough County is “one step closer” to putting a transit tax to a vote: Commissioners voted 5-2 to have the county attorney craft a resolution saying the board intends to pursue a sales tax referendum for the November 2010 ballot. Ken Hagan, Mark Sharpe, Kevin White, Rose Ferlita, and Kevin Beckner all [...]
“I didn’t even know we had a bus. But I should be driving it.” According to Rose Ferlita’s (former campaign) website, she currently sits on the boards of both Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) and the Public Transportation Commission. She is also currently the Vice Chair for the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Chair of the [...]
“Do what they did, you’ll get what they got.” I am not sure that Tampa Bay needs to reinvent the wheel on its way to urban viability, but… Many of the cities that have truly come back from the edge and become centers of creative post-industrial life are very different from the Tampa/St Pete metro area. They [...]
HART’s next board meeting will be Monday, August 4, at 8:30AM. This may prove to be an interesting session. TBO reported yesterday that the HART Board of Directors plan to vote on whether to pursue a sales tax funded rail initiative in 2010. What didn’t make the papers is that HART is also [...]
Mayor Pam Iorio says that Tampa needs to get started on rail transit now, and not wait for TBARTA to get it going. TBARTA wishes she would just give ‘em time to analyze the entire region. The Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners will have to decide if they want to ask for extra sales tax as soon [...]
City of Tampa elected officials were sworn in yesterday. Directly following, the city council chose Gwen Miller as the chairwoman, again. Mayor Pam says mass transit will be her focus for this next term. Not so fast… Linda Saul-Sena has been on the Metropolitan Planning Organization for 20 years. Gwen Miller decided that’s long enough. [...]
After determining that transportation is this area’s number one problem, we got some suggestions on how to fix Tampa’s traffic problems. Ideas were abundant, including these: Better enforcement: ticket slow drivers in passing lanes Pass on the left Use blinkers Crackdown on speeding/reckless driving ticket red-light runners Stricter standards on licensing: The only minimum standard is a written test with a 70% [...]
