In February, the board of Hillsborough County’s transit agency unanimously selected its next CEO, Ben Limmer. He began work at the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority late last month. He had been the assistant general manager at MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Limmer was a guest on WMNF’s MidPoint. Last November, Hillsborough County… Read more »
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MidPoint for Thursday, May 3- "Conspiracy" author Ryan Holiday
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MidPoint April 12- Pat Kemp, Linda Saul-Sena & Taryn Sabia on transit
While a proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line running from Wesley Chapel to St. Petersburg continues to be the major proposal that the Tampa Bay area transportation community is rallying around, there are a number of critics of the proposal, and three of them participated in Thursday’s MidPoint program. Hillsborough County Commissioner Pat Kemp says… Read more »
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MidPoint for Thursday, March 15 – John Judis and Tampa mayoral candidate Topher Morrison
Journalist and author John B. Judis was our guest for the first part of this edition of MidPoint. Judis is an editor at large at Talking Points Memo and the author of The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics. His piece, “The Two Sides of Immigration Policy,” was published in last… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, Feb 1st – Scott Pringle, lead consultant on proposed BRT project to run from Wesley Chapel to St. Pete
Scott Jacobs is with Jacobs Engineering, the consulting group leading the Regional Transit Feasibility Plan in the Tampa Bay area. Two weeks ago, his group unveiled to the public a proposed 41-mile Bus Rapid Transit project that would run from Wesley Chapel in Pasco County down to St.Petersburg. The total cost for the I-275/BRT project… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, Jan 18 – Preview of St. Pete Women March; Former St. Pete City Councilman Karl Nurse
This Sunday activists involved with last year’s Women’s March in St. Petersburg will be commemorating the occasion by holding another major rally, this time in Williams Park in downtown from 12:30-4:30 p.m. Joining us on the program to discuss the event were Lisa Perry and Lakeisha Black, two of the organizers of the event. Later… Read more »
Changes to HART’s Bus Routes Draw Pushback from Riders
Radioactivity Wednesday October 18 2017 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll have a discussion about the major changes to HART bus routes in Hillsborough County. There’s been some pushback from riders who say the changes make the bus system harder to use. Earlier this month HART- the transit authority in… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, August 24 – Hillsborough County School Board member April Griffin
Hillsborough County School Board member April Griffin was our guest for the entire hour. Originally elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010 and 2014, Griffin was a leader in the movement to hold former School Board Superintendent MaryEllen Elia accountable, and was one of four members of the board to vote to terminate her contract… Read more »
Transit options in Tampa Bay; tracking fracking in Florida
On MidPoint, we heard from a woman who has been pressuring Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran to take a stance on a fracking ban; we also talked about what’s at stake in upcoming government meetings on transportation, including Tampa Bay Next. Nathalia Assaad is a volunteer with Food & Water Watch. She grew up in… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, July 20 -Tampa International Airport CEO Joe Lopano
Joe Lopano has been running Tampa International Airport since 2011. Since that time, he’s added a number of direct international flights as mandated by his bosses at the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority. He’s also leading the airport through a major $2.6 billion master plan, the first phase of which will be completed by next February… Read more »
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Is Uber’s Business Model Heading for Collapse?
The American Health Care Act stalls in the Senate The Republican Party’s long-promised repeal of “Obamacare” is in trouble after Senate GOP leaders, short of support, abruptly shelved a vote Tuesday on legislation aimed at fulfilling the pledge. The surprise development leaves the legislation’s fate uncertain while raising new doubts about whether President Donald Trump… Read more »
Bringing up race gets activist tossed from transit meeting
A social justice activist was escorted out of a transportation meeting Monday night after bringing up the role of transit policy in reinforcing racial injustice. Dayna Lazarus works with several groups including Organize Florida, SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) and Transit Now Tampa Bay. But she was cut off while speaking by Hillsborough County… Read more »
Tampa Bay interstate toll lane plan moves ahead despite opposition to TB Next
A plan to add 90 miles of toll lanes to the existing interstate highways in the Tampa Bay area has taken another step forward; despite overwhelming opposition from the public, the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) voted Tuesday night to include the TB Next plan that used to be called TBX in its five-year… Read more »
Transit supporters wary of re-branded TBX
The major plan to put toll lanes on interstate highways in the Tampa Bay area and make other transportation changes has undergone a “reset;” but many transit activists who opposed what was originally called TBX think the new plan, known as Tampa Bay Next, is too similar to the first. Michelle Cookson is secretary of… Read more »
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Tampa’s Central Avenue: Central to Tampa History, Central to Tampa’s Transportation Future
Will the controversial TBX plan be revived? Central Avenue in Tampa is a storied place and its past, present, and future ties together African American history, police killings, walkable communities, and the future of transportation in the entire Tampa Bay area. A few months ago, residents living in Tampa’s central neighborhoods — Tampa Heights, Ybor… Read more »
