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Merging our MPO with Pinellas & Pasco is a bad idea. This is on the agenda at TBARTA next Friday in Tampa, August 24 at 9:30 in the HART boardroom in Ybor City. See the short video above about this Title 6 issue.
I’m very concerned about a TBARTA/FDOT study pushing the idea of merging Hillsborough’s transportation planning organization, the MPO, with the Pinellas and Pasco County MPOs. A three-county MPO would drown out the voices of Hillsborough residents who have shown up by the hundreds to be heard by our MPO. This is a Title 6 issue because Hillsborough’s population is so much more diverse than Pinellas and Pasco.
These are major, systemic problems. County Commissioner Mark Sharpe, who serves on the board, gets it; he changed his mind and supported a tax increase for HART, which would cost the average homeowner about 41 cents a year. But his colleague, Commissioner Sandy Murman, a fellow Republican, is still playing politics. Murman said she won't support an increase "even if it's a penny."
Even if it's a penny? This is the mind-set Hillsborough needs to change if it hopes to address transportation and job development in a meaningful way.