Browsing Tag »walkability«

ending the tampa bay creative diaspora (iii)

“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 [...]

crosswalk needed on n. bayshore

Sticks of Fire reader Taylor sent this to us recently: A group of Tampa residents headed by Mimi Conneely are pushing for a crosswalk at the north end of Bayshore. Currently there is no safe accommodation of foot, bike or wheelchair traffic to or from Davis Islands, leaving S.O.L. anybody without a car who needs to [...]

sticks, downtown on flashpoint sunday

Tune in to ABC Action News on Sunday morning at 11am for Flashpoint. Brendan McLaughlin discusses the results from Iowa with Wayne Garcia, and in the second segment, Christine Burdick (President of the Tampa Downtown Partnership), Brendan, and myself discuss the walkability of downtown. Flashpoint is a half hour show, otherwise, I’m sure the three of [...]

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