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Regional transit in Tampa Bay is getting an updated vision listen
04/26/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: TBARTA, PSTA, HART, transit, rail, buses, transportation
The board coordinating transit agencies from all over the Tampa Bay area is updating its master plan this year. The Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority discussed the changes during its meeting Friday. Even though the board considers the update minor, it includes opportunities for increased regional connectivity.
Much of the focus will be on making it easier to get between Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. Bob Clifford is TBARTA’s executive direct...
1 commentsHillsborough County Commissioners will accelerate transit talks listen
03/20/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: transit, transportation, rail, buses, bicyclists, Hillsborough County Commission, Mark Sharpe
Hillsborough County Commissioners unanimously agreed to start planning how to improve transit during a meeting today in downtown. Despite more than a dozen speakers who were in favor of multi-modal transit, Commissioner Victor Crist said his vote doesn't necessarily mean he will support rail.
Be the first to comment“I’m going to be judging them solely on the ROI – the return on investment. I’m going to be looking at whether or not it remained an objective process. I’m going to be scrutinizing it very closel...
Mobile app for bus riders coming soon to Hillsborough listen
02/08/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: HART, transit, transportation, buses, smartphones, apps
The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit authority is trying to make it easier for bus riders to figure out how to get from point A to point B. HART will launch a web-based bus information system for riders this summer. The program is called OneBusAway and was created with the help of USF’s Center for Urban Transportation Research. It will be available on smart phones, through the HART website and through telephone operators. HART’s Information Technology Services coordinator, Shannon Haney ...
Be the first to commentHART passes $100 million budget for FY2012 listen
09/27/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: HART, budget, millage rate, transit, Transportation, buses, bus rapid transit, unions, collective bargaining
Yesterday the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority, or HART, approved a 100 million dollar budget for the next fiscal year. Members of the transit union gave up on demands for a wage increase, as well as a separate step increase. The Board also voted unanimously to raise the millage rate slightly to half a mil.
The HART Board of Directors has been torn between maintai...
Be the first to commentPinellas Transportation Task Force considers regional sales tax for light rail listen
11/16/10 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Transportation, local government, light rail, buses, transit, TBARTA, Pinellas County
Hillsborough County voters have rejected a one-cent transit sales tax, but what about the other side of the Bay? The Pinellas Transportation Task Force met yesterday to discuss a variety of revenue options for a light rail system in Pinellas County.
The Task Force of county officials, business leaders and other citizens are considering a regional transit sales tax to fund a light rail system that would link to a proposed high-speed rail terminus in Tampa. Pinellas County Commission Chair ...
3 commentsIorio addresses Hillsborough MPO on transit plan listen
05/05/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Transportation, Hart, light rail, commuter rail, buses, mass transit
The question of how to sell a light rail system to Hillsborough County voters next year was discussed at the County’s Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting this morning.
Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, who has been the leading figure in raising the possibility of light rail finally coming to the region, was given the floor.
Iorio referred to the last serious plan for rail in Hillsborough County a decade ago. She said the biggest since her tenure as a County Commission in the 1980s was that...
Be the first to commentMark Sharpe defends his work on mass transit listen
02/25/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Transportation, Hart, light rail, commuter rail, buses, mass transit
A clash of egos broke out at a budget meeting today with Hillsborough County Commissioners regarding a possible referendum next year on funding a mass transit system.
Commissioner Mark Sharpe has been actively involved in discussions with other local agencies over the past couple of years on the issue.
After coming back from a meeting with Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, as well as members of HART, the County’s Metropolitian Planning organization and the region’s transit agency, TBARTA, Sharpe s...
Be the first to commentHART proposes bus rapid transit line listen
01/27/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Transportation, Hart, light rail, commuter rail, buses, Mass Transit, bus rapid transit
Light and commuter rail will be part of a regional transit solution for the Tampa Bay region, but so will expanded bus service, especially bus rapid transit (BRT).
City and county officials and community leaders met at the offices of HART, the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority today.
Chad Luedtke is vice president of HDR engineering, a consulting group hired by HART for the BRT project. Leudtke says construction of bus stops along the proposed nort...
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