Thursday, December 27, 2012
A new poll suggests taxpayers in several Bay area counties are now willing to pay higher taxes to have mass transit. Do you agree?
Go to Atlanta and you can jump on the MARTA to get where you’re going. Visit San Francisco and there’s the BART standing ready to help you get around. New York City has its subway and Chicago has the “L.” Commuter rail and extensive mass transit systems are a way of life in most major metropolitan areas in America. What about Tampa Bay? Live or visit here and the best you can do to get around without hoofing it is to get a car, call a taxi or hop on a bus (in areas that have bus service at all). A new poll sponsored by Bay News 9, The Tampa Bay Times and AM 820 News Tampa Bay seems to indicate the winds are changing in favor of the Bay area getting its own commuter light rail system. While a proposed 1-cent sales tax increase to fund mass …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Proposed transit plans could improve bus transportation and connect Largo with Downtown Clearwater and Downtown St. Petersburg by rail.
The Largo City Commission approved a resolution April 3 endorsing a county committee's recommendations for providing premium transit services in Pinellas County. Project Background. The proposed project could provide light rail between Clearwater, Largo, the Greater Gateway Area, Pinellas Park and St. Petersburg with a regional connection across Tampa Bay to Tampa. The project is in the alternatives analysis phase, said Scott Pringle of Jacobs Engineering Group. If preliminary plans move forward, the rail trip would take about an hour from Clearwater to St. Petersburg through Largo. There would be 24 miles of light rail and 16 stations with several stations in Largo near East Bay Drive. The project would also, include expansion and …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A group protested any sales tax increase to fund a proposed light rail project, which could go through Largo.
Monday afternoon along Starkey Road, a group of people protested the possible taxpayer funding of a proposed light rail project, which could go through Largo. One proposed funding source for light rail is a one percent sales tax, which Pinellas voters would need to approve.The proposed increase would make sales tax eight percent. The costs to build the rail would be paid for by a mix of local, state, federal and private funds that would be financed over 30 years, according to Scott Pringle of Jacobs Engineering Group at a presentation in Clearwater. The proposed light rail plan would connect Largo's East Bay Drive with Downtown Clearwater and Downtown St. Petersburg. The preliminary cost estimates for the 16 rail stations and 24 miles of …
Michael D.
3:25 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Alex, Having lived around USF from 2002-2006, it isn't the best area. So I can see where you are coming from in that regard. For an area that should have a lot to offer, it's pretty barren. I personally am a person that would like to use some "reliable" public transport to go to events like Hockey Games, Concerts, etc. and if there was reliable transport to work I might take that as well. For the… more ›