A Critical Day For Hillsborough County

This Wednesday morning, March 1st is a critical day for Hillsborough County. If you cannot be there, PLEASE EMAIL your County Commissioners all at once ASAP with the link below to demand the County Commission FUND TRANSIT NOW!

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Email is the BEST way for written record of all comments but if possible please call, too!

Sandra L. Murman 813-272-5470 

Victor D. Crist 813-272-5452 

Lesley "Les" Miller Jr. 813-272-5720 

Stacy White 813-272-5740 

Ken Hagan 813-272-5725 

Pat Kemp 813-272-5730 

Al Higginbotham 813-272-5735

HART Riding

Marion Transit Center

HART Honors Rosa Parks

#8

HART Rider

Go HART

Rush Hour At Britton Plaza

World notice how shabby our bus stops are!

Free HART Ride

On election day!

Tampa Catching Up With The World

Marion Transit Center

Go HART!

Now lets do it countywide.

Riverside, CA. and Richmond VA. do it. 

here

HART Empty Your Trash

Britton Plaza Transit Center

Marion Transit Center - Tampa

Go HART

HART Driver #4005

Thanks for the ride, Ivan!

The Magical #8

Downtown, Ybor City, Palm River, Clair Mel City,

 Progress Village and Brandon

Around here we travel light
Go HART!

The Liberals In Tampa Demand

Tampa Liberals

Mitch Perry

GO Hillsborough - Our demands

BUY CSX tracks immediately

And some trains.

Here is a locomotive Reduced to $90,000

No new roads, 

fix the ones we have

Pedestrian friendly with bike trails

Turanchik Bay Ferry

And give the rest to HART

And Stop TBX

HART To Get 15 New Buses

They will run on natural gas
They are needed to support the fixed route fleet to keep up with a continued growth in ridership.

The Feds are paying for the buses.

here

Rude And Ungrateful HART Drivers

Saturday this blog sponsored a team in 

The Heights Collective Benefit Bonanza 2015! 

A scavenger hunt to raise money for  

The Centre for Girls - Tampa, 

Teams were given a list of task, one of them was to get a picture of a team member holding a bus pass next to a bus driver. Our team visited the Marion Transit Center to try to accomplish this task. After talking to several bus drivers, not one would help us. We showed them our tasker, told them why we needed the pic and even offered to block out their faces. Still they were rude and would not help us. We checked with other teams and with the hunt director and no one was able to accomplish this task. May we remind these drivers that it is activist like us who fight super highways (TBX) and promote mass transit so they can keep their jobs. If you would like to let HART know what you think, please do it here.

Spacial thanks to:

The bartenders at The Hub, the folks at MF Arts Ybor for the use of their awesome space, Red Star Rock Bar, the man at Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe who let us in to get our pic of the two headed gator even though they were not open yet (Thanks for the offer Dude!), 
La Segunda Cenral Bakery, Ulele, Mermaid Tavern, Nicko's, King Corona and many more for being so HELPFUL!
And The Heights Collective for this awesome event!  

Hillsborough Poll Shows Support For All Ttransit Options

Do Hillsborough County residents prefer their taxes be spent on better roads or do they want a more diverse array of transportation options, including rapid bus routes, light rail 
and a high-speed ferry?
It turns out they want all of the above

here

Connect Tampa Bay Transportation Proposal

WHEN: Thursday, January 30 at 6 PM

WHERE: 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa Museum of Art, Downtown Tampa

INFO

Tampa HART

Hillsborough County leaders are drawing up plans to remake the HART bus system into an expansive agency that can oversee construction of countywide transportation projects ang the authority to build roads and rail and create new bus routes.....more

Commissioners Kevin Beckner, Mark Sharpe and Sandy Murman all nominated HART.

Mayor Bob likes the idea, so do we. If anything is right around here it is them. 

“When you’re talking about transportation, for me it’s logical to think HART, why would you recreate the wheel and create a whole new agency.” Kevin Beckner

Tampa Growing Up

Hillsborough County residents predictably ranked traffic congestion, job creation and availability of bus or rail as top-priority planning issues in an interactive survey conducted over three months that planners have begun to analyze......more

HART’s ridership At Record High

HART reported all-time record ridership in October with nearly 1.4 million passenger trips, a 1.8 percent increase over the previous record set in October 2012, the Hillsborough County transit system said Monday.......more

Elvis Sighting In Tampa

Met him on a HART bus.He has gone green and says he has lost a lot of weight since he started riding the bus. He is looking for gigs. Call him at 813.850.3085

MetroRapid

Free Rides For 2 Weeks
Sleek, shiny, technology-laden and quick — Hillsborough County's newest form of mass transit is meant to lure commuters out of their cars and into a passenger seat.
here
Nice new bus smell.