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Tampa residents to Hillsborough MPO: Again, cancel TBX

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Three months after the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization approved putting the Tampa Bay Express project into its Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP), dozens of angry residents in the neighborhoods to be affected by the project again expressed their opposition at the Hillsborough County Center in Tampa on Tuesday night. “The TBX is the last thing the community wants $9 billion of their tax money spent on,” said Michelle Cookson, a leader with the activist group Sunshine Citizens that opposes the project.…

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TBX foes to gather at County Center in Tampa tonight

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Back in August, the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization heard official testimony from over fifty people who strongly opposed the Tampa Bay Express (TBX) project that would add express lanes to I-275 and I-4. Several hundred other residents who live in the Seminole and Tampa Heights neighborhoods which would be directly affected by the plan also expressed their disapproval at the meeting. Despite that intense opposition, however, the members of the MPO – with one exception – voted unanimously in including the TBX plan into…

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FDOT’s express toll lane proposal gets thumbs down at Pepin Center in Tampa

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The public reaction to the Florida Department of Transportation’s proposed Tampa Bay Express project that includes toll lanes on I-275 and I-4 has been mostly negative since being unveiled earlier this year. But despite the criticism, it doesn’t appear that the project is going to be sidelined anytime soon. On Monday night, FDOT held an open house to show drawings and hear from community members regarding a 22-mile portion of the TBX plan on I-4 that would create toll lanes…

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Showdown on Tuesday at the Hillsborough County MPO

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This Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Organization will  meet with a lot on the line. The MPO board will hold a public hearing on its priorities with the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), which includes the Tampa Bay Express (TBX), the controversial proposal by the Florida Department of Transportation that would install toll lanes on I-275 in the Tampa Bay area. Because of public interest, the MPO recently announced that it will move the meeting from the 26th floor of…

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Tampa town hall focuses on negative impacts of proposed I-275 toll lanes

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A coalition of Tampa activists who hosted a two-hour town hall meeting in Seminole Heights on Tuesday night appeared to have two main goals that they wanted to impart on the hundreds who crowded into the American Legion Post No. 111. The first goal was to convince them that the proposal by the Florida Department of Transportation for a new tolled highway would be a disaster for residents in Seminole Heights and Tampa Heights on a number of fronts. The second goal was…

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