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.
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 » Dangerous By Design report: The most dangerous metropolitan areas in the U.S. for walking in 2007-2008 were: Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Memphis, [...]
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,
According to the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership and Transportation for America, the most dangerous metropolitan areas in the U.S. for walking in 2007-2008 were: Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Memphis, Raleigh, Louisville, Houston, Birmingham and Atlanta. That’s right. The top four places most dangerous to those of us walking around outside are all in Florida – [...]
Tampa chief of staff Darrell Smith says “red light running is a real problem in the area and we believe that if there’s an opportunity to alleviate that problem we should explore it.” So public works and utilities administrator Steve Daignault says the City of Tampa is “in the process of studying the effectiveness of” red [...]
You are right. There are a million other things much more important than this. But when I was looking up the info for the 75th birthday of the ‘Courtney Campbell’ Causeway, we found out that Ben Davis built it with his own money. Courtney later convinced the state to pony up the dough for improvements, leading [...]
