Tagged: Transportation

Bob Buckhorn insults Ruskin

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn insults nearby community of Ruskin

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, attempting to discredit the many citizens who disagree with him on the Go Hillsborough sales-tax proposal, pompously belittles them all as “3 tea party bloggers sitting in their underwear in their basements in Ruskin.” Disparaging the community of Ruskin is no way to gain our support.

Citizen support needed (again) for South Coast Greenway

Please send letters (sample letter below) to County Commissioners to ask them to begin building the South Coast Greenway, a paved multi-use bicycle-pedestrian trail which has been planned for decades to connect south Hillsborough...

Speak up for bike lanes — with thanks

We need to tell our County Commissioners (repeatedly) that safe bicycle lanes & trails are important to MANY of us, if we want them to actually build the network of safe cycling infrastructure that is in our plans. We need to tell them we apprecia…

South Coast Greenway now fully funded & prioritized!

Thanks to all who joined forces to support the South Coast Greenway, today the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) voted unanimously to: (1) fully fund all 6 segments of the South Coast Greenway, and (2) raise the priority…

Save the South Coast Greenway trail!

Please send letters (see sample letter below) & attend the hearing to save the South Coast Greenway: a multi-use paved trail planned to run from Ruskin to Tampa. Connected with side trails to Sun City Center, Apollo Beach, Balm, Gibsonton, Rivervi…

Greenways, Bikeways in South County

Although we didn’t get our bikeways added to the 2035 Transportation Plan’s list of funded projects, we did make progress at tonight’s final hearing of the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) board. Thanks to all of you who sent in comments a…