Public Transportation

Nina Venter is a Senior Transportation Planner for the Sarasota-Manatee metropolitan planning organization. She says Northeast Manatee County alone is projected to have a population similar to Fort Lauderdale's by 2050.

Certain portions of Alternate U.S. 19 see up to 35,000 cars per day. Whit Blanton, the executive director of Forward Pinellas, discusses a study that will look at how the roadway can adapt over the next few decades.

House Bill 1487, filed by Republican Linda Chaney, has been tweaked a bit since it was first shown to the Pinellas County Delegation in November.

The Breeze service connects communities following the 2021 cutback on county bus routes.

DASH Tampa launched earlier this month. For $2, a DASH driver in a Tesla taxi will pick them up and drop them off at one of more than 20 hubs in the downtown area.

Interim Transit Division Manager Chris Deannuntis says ridership has gone up 14% when compared to this time last year.

City officials revealed a 30-year plan, called Tampa MOVES, that aims to improve traffic congestion and connect neighborhoods for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit riders. It will cost $2 billion.

David Green discusses the hardships the organization faced in recent years, and what would need to change if a similar effort were to take shape.

Interviews for the poll were conducted last Thursday to Monday, shortly before a federal judge in Florida struck down the national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit.

The service would aim to decrease traffic going on and off Anna Maria Island.

Last month, the Florida Supreme Court ruled against the county’s 1-cent sales tax that was meant to fund transportation improvements. Without it, those improvements are delayed once again while Hillsborough’s roads, bridges and more continue to age.

Last month, the Florida Supreme Court ruled against the county’s 1-cent sales tax that was meant to fund transportation improvements. Without it, those improvements are delayed once again while Hillsborough’s roads, bridges and more continue to age.