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EVERY address in South Tampa should have a ballot mailed to them and allow them to vote on this project

Published on June 9, 2009 in Elevated Gandy will not alleviate traffic. 1 Comment
Elevated mess

Elevated mess

by Jim @ Gandy Plaza

This is the unfortunate outlook we could face if they continue with this ridiculous conception of an overpass on top of Gandy. THEA does not care about the outcome of Gandy Blvd.  and of South Tampa, they are looking for revenue and to see how they can keep their own jobs secure. It is the City of Tampa’s fault for approving so many housing permits to construct condos, homes, and town homes in such a small congested neighborhood. It’s like putting 10 pounds of materiel  in a 2 pound bag. The city is looking out for their own revenue, permits, code enforcement anything to have a continuous flow of revenue coming into the city. That’s why mayor Pam Iorio is in favor she wants the jobs, labors, companies anything to keep the city’s revenue coming in. That’s fine, but little does she realize is the local strip centers, stores, restaurants, gas stations, any business that would be affected from this project, the revenue generated from these businesses would decrease. For instance, 1% sales tax collected for The City of Tampa, 6% sales tax collected for the State of Florida. If the City of Tampa doesn’t care about 1% sales tax maybe we should be writing Tallahassee, because I am sure they would care about loosing 6% sales tax on everything. So I think everyone who lives and works in South Tampa should be aware of what is happening to their community, and EVERYONE should have a vote on what the neighborhood wants.

I think that EVERY address in South Tampa should have a ballot mailed to them and allow them to vote on this project and have them send it back to who ever would be in charge, or we should put up a ballot, and petition on our web site (SAVE GANDY .COM) so people can vote on there and we can keep track of them. I hope our web site reaches all of our community, and neighbors to let them be aware of what’s happening in their neighborhood.

Information from TBARTA

Published on June 9, 2009 in Elevated Gandy will not alleviate traffic. 0 Comments

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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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