Who Said That?
" We keep doing this all-or-nothing strategy with funding, and we’ve ended up with nothing."
-- Former HART board member Steve Polzin, who studies transit at the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research
In Tampa Bay, local leaders have debated ways to fix the area’s limited public transportation system for 30 years — then time and again, chosen to do nothing, the Tampa Bay Times has found.
Today, the system does far less to get people around than those in virtually every other similar-sized place in America.
Out of the country’s 30 largest metro areas, the region ranks 29th in four of six common ways the federal government measures public transit coverage and usage.
The other two ways, it ranks dead last.
Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.