Last year, the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) — in partnership with Westshore Alliance and HART — conducted a survey to explore the feasibility of a transit circulator service within the Westshore area, which is by far the densest business district in the region.
MPO's Randy Kranjec said that while the service could be vital in the future, it's not ready to be unveiled. He said there isn't much interest in the private sector, and there's no funding source at this time.
Hart board members expressed concern that the construction of what they call an intermodal center might conflict with a similar transit center being proposed on the site of Tampa International Airport, which is just one-and-a-half miles away.
This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2013.
