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June 20th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
You really need to start using the start-up money and start a grass roots effort followed with state and federal…advertise that TBARTA even exists, that it isn’t just another failed attempt….not a lot of people even think we have a solution that is in the works or will go beyond studies… You now have 2 million dollars….its not a lot, but start now when gas is over 4 dollars in many parts of the urban area, your systems affects a population closing in on 4.3 million people and a very defined urban area of over 2.2 million in the two urban principal counties of Pinellas and Hillsborough, an MSA now at 2.8 million and much larger than a lot of other metro areas that already have rail for both population counts, and county residents and daytime populations in Tampa reach levels right behind Atlanta’s numbers. Hillsborough reports just over 1.2 million people and they live in or around Tampa. Pinellas is smaller in size based on square miles(230sq/m land) than a lot of cities, closing in on a million permanent residents. I live in downtown St. Petersburg and am watching rail ripped up for the trail system, which isn’t really going to be used until the areas are cleaned up decades from now….we need rail now or we will end up the Detroit of Florida. Even Ft. Myers/Southwest Florida has started talking up a system with just over a new population of 800k population. A lot of the metro areas have merged their surrounding counties too into the MSA or the CSA to inflate numbers and include everyone that isn’t in city center. Miami is now over a 100 miles long and 5.5 million, Jacksonville at 1.3 now, Orlando CSA now closing in at 2.7 million, now just a 100k away from Tampa Bay the way a lot of companies and people assume, merge the Tampa and Sarasota MSAs and you have a population of over 4 million alone….Sarasota even added Charlotte county to its CSA population, why are we not growing in this way? Our land area is a lot smaller in land size than a lot of other MSA and a lot for CSAs….will this change like what has been talked about in Census 2010 Population Count?
August 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am
A rail system will cost billions in ROW acquisition, roadbed, and rolling stock, and the result will be a fixed system that nobody will use unless it coincidentally goes where you want to go. We need a better bus system. In Pinellas, the routes are a haphazard bowl of spaghetti. Not one bus crosses the Bayside Bridge connecting McMullen-Booth Road with 49th Street, although that route is used by thousand of drivers per hour. North Pinellas County is poorly served. Are the other county bus systems as ad as the PSTA’s? To get drivers off the road and on the bus, we need routes that go where people go.