Obviously, despite being a lifelong resident of the Tampa Bay area, Mayor Pam Iorio still has no clue how we do things around here. ...more

August 5, 2008

Rather than wait for a regional transportation authority to develop a plan, Mayor Pam Iorio wants to develop a Tampa-centric approach that would ask Hillsborough County voters in 2010 whether to fund mass transit with a sales tax. ...more

July 31, 2008

County residents will get the chance to pick their preferred method of mass transit during a July 31 workshop sponsored by the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority (TBARTA). ...more

July 25, 2008

by light rail or bus? Perhaps a combination of both? ...more

July 17, 2008

If you had your choice, how would you like to travel to downtown Tampa or St. Petersburg — by light rail or bus? Perhaps a combination of both? ...more

July 16, 2008

The high price of fuel is a huge threat to Florida tourism and the state's overall economic growth. ...more

June 29, 2008

The Tampa Bay area's new regional transportation board kicked off the search for a day-to-day leader Friday. ...more

June 28, 2008

SAN ANTONIO - The Tampa Bay area's new regional transportation board kicked off the search for a day-to-day leader today as members urged the board to move quickly toward building a transit network to knit together the seven-county region. ...more

June 27, 2008

County Commissioner David Russell said the results from a mass transit ridership survey released last week clearly indicate the need to park the county's bus permanently. ...more

June 19, 2008

With the price of motor fuels sparking a lot of worry, this would seem the time to move toward an alternative to cars as the major means of getting around the Suncoast. That happened this week. The $66 billion state budget for fiscal 2009 Gov. Charlie Crist signed this week has $2 million for the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority. TBARTA will use the money to ramp up its planning for a mass transit system in an eight-county region that runs from Citrus County south to Sarasota County and includes Pasco and Pinellas. Crist vetoed $1 million for TBARTA last year. ...more

June 14, 2008