by Kathy from Tampa.
Last night I went to one of the Tampa Bay Area Rapid Transportation Authority (TBARTA) presentations. The speaker presented some information that may be of interest to this group.
In actual numbers (not density) there are more jobs in the West Shore Corridor than there are in downtown Tampa. That may suggest that a more useful alternative to moving Pinellas traffic through South Tampa would be to put an elevated roadway above West Shore between Gandy and Kennedy. I’m not suggesting since as everybody in Culbreath Key would be at my throat.
The second piece of possibly useful information concerns the Howard Frankland Bridge. One span of the bridge is already programmed to be replaced. It is be re-built with an option to expand it to accommodate a light rail track lane. It seems to me that if if can be expanded to fit a light rail lane, it can be further expanded to accomodate an evacuation lane, and probably at a cost well below $138 million. The lane can be used in daily operations as a reversible rush hour expansion lane (in bound in the morning, out bound in the afternoon).
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