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Last year's brouhaha over new pavement envisioned for much of South Shore effectively scrapped the proposed South County Transportation Plan, except for a portion of it that discussed road improvements for Wimauma, county planners said this week. ...more
January 17, 2008
Wearing shorts in January and clutching a satchel of road maps, Dave Kulow still enjoys two passions he discovered 50 years ago as a young missionary: a sunny climate and an interest in transportation challenges. ...more
January 17, 2008
Opponents said a cautious goodbye this week to the Brandon Bypass, a conceptual loop around Hillsborough County's population centers that critics maintained would destroy rural communities and preservation tracts and promote urban sprawl in south and east Hillsborough. ...more
December 8, 2007
Opponents said a cautious goodbye this week to the Brandon Bypass, a conceptual loop around Hillsborough County's population centers that critics maintained would destroy rural communities and preservation tracts and promote urban sprawl in south and east Hillsborough. ...more
December 8, 2007
The Brandon Bypass is bygone, at least for now. Activists trying to reform the county's growth management policies have been pressuring elected officials to remove the conceptual highway from all planning maps. Tuesday, they saw their efforts succeed, as officials voted unanimously to take the penciled route that would sweep through southeastern Hillsborough off the Metropolitan Planning Organization's list of needed transportation improvements for 2025. ...more
December 5, 2007
TAMPA - The Brandon Bypass is bygone, at least for now. ...more
December 4, 2007
Reconvening after a four-month break, the county's Transportation Task Force on Monday quickly sketched out its main goal for next year: work with other agencies on a long-range transportation plan that emphasizes mass transit. ...more
December 4, 2007
Your Nov. 11 editorial on two local bills submitted to the Hillsborough legislative delegation was strangely contradictory in examining the composition of countywide boards. The Tampa Tribune defends the inclusion of the cities of Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City on the planning commission and sports authority boards yet denies the logic and fairness of city representation on the Hillsborough Environmental Protection Commission board. ...more
November 13, 2007
A long-range transit plan approved Tuesday would have trains and buses crisscrossing Hillsborough County, but officials say the plan is decades - and billions of dollars - from being realized. ...more
November 7, 2007
A long-range plan that projected a slew of new rural roads and two new Alafia River bridges for south Hillsborough County won't go before county commissioners early next year as announced after residents said they were shut out of the planning process. ...more
October 23, 2007
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