When Hillsborough County voters overwhelmingly defeated the penny transit tax last fall, local supporters said that the idea would definitely come back – they just couldn't predict when.
But if one anti-rail advocate gets his way, that will never happen.
In Wednesday's St. Petersburg Times, reporter Jodie Tillman alerts the citizenry that though it may be nothing more than an idle thought, activist David Caton would love to get a measure on the 2012 Hillsborough ballot that would prohibit spending county money on rail – presumably forever.
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.