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Iris Rogers of Bradenton is overcome with emotion Wednesday while visiting a makeshift memorial at Bay to Bay Boulevard and Lois Avenue for two Plant High students killed in a motorcycle crash.
Road where Plant High students died is slated for fixes. When there’s money.
A traffic signal at Bay to Bay and Lois would cost $550,000, so temporary measures are under consideration. But there’s no money for them yet, either.
I-275 expansion work in Tampa to begin Monday
Drivers negotiate I-275 Thursday in Tampa. Work begins Monday to add new lanes to I-275 from north of the I-4 interchange to Hillsborough Avenue.
The $85.3 million project adds lanes from north of the I-4 interchange to Hillsborough Avenue.
Cross Bay Ferry sets sail between Tampa and St. Petersburg Oct. 21
Guests line up to board the Cross Bay Ferry docked at the Tampa Convention Center on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020 in Tampa. The season service returns Oct. 21, 2021.
The seasonal service runs through May 22, 2022.
Tampa airport sets express curbside check-in for flyers without checked bags
This rendering shows the interior of Tampa International Airport's Blue Express Curbside check-in area, which will be open to travelers without checked bags on Nov. 16.
Tampa International Airport’s Blue Express Curbside lanes will be open for travelers by Thanksgiving.

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  1. With SunRunner no longer free, St. Pete Beach complaints have plunged
    Yesterday• Transportation
    The SunRunner stops in St. Pete Beach in August. After residents and officials from the city complained about homeless riders sleeping on the beach and panhandling, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri urged the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority to impose a fare on the previously free bus line. On Wednesday, he said the measure worked: Complaints have plummeted.
  2. DeSantis seeks to spend Hillsborough transportation sales tax funds
    Yesterday• Transportation
    “We certainly have more than enough transportation needs for that funding," Tampa Mayor Jane Castor told the Times on Tuesday.
  3. Drivers will see major progress on the Howard Frankland in 2024
    Yesterday• Transportation
    The Howard Frankland Bridge seen under construction from Tampa on Nov. 20.
  5. Bigger Jimmy Buffett cruise ship will sail out of Tampa next year
    Dec. 4• Travel
    The cruise line Margaritaville at Sea has announced that Tampa will be the port of call for its next, much bigger cruise ship, the Islander, offering trips to Mexico and Key West.
  6. Sunshine Skyway suicide ends remarkable 19-month run without one
    Nov. 30• Transportation
    Traffic streams southbound over the Sunshine Skyway bridge in July 2021, shortly after suicide prevention fencing was completed. The Skyway on Tuesday saw its first suicide in 19 months, a remarkable stretch for a bridge that had averaged about one suicide per month before the fencing was erected.
  7. Pinellas transit authority overhaul bill advances, with smaller scope
    Nov. 29• Pinellas
    The SunRunner — stopped in St. Pete Beach in August — has been touted as one of many recent successes by the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority. But Republican lawmakers have been critical of the agency, and a bill that would cut its board of directors by nearly a third will advance to the state Legislature after a vote by local lawmakers Wednesday.
  8. Riverwalk reroute at old Trump Tower Tampa site is ahead of schedule
    Nov. 29• Transportation
    The Tampa Riverwalk during construction on the Pendry Tampa high-rise. The area is temporarily closed while a pedestrian-friendly tunnel is built there.
  9. When will the Gateway Expressway (finally) open? 2024, FDOT says.
    Nov. 25• Pinellas
    A laborer works Monday along 118th Avenue North on the Gateway Expressway Project in St. Petersburg. The oft-delayed project is set to conclude in early 2024.
  10. Fixing Tampa’s roads is top priority for Mayor Castor, but city lags, report says
    Nov. 23• Tampa
    A vehicle drives on a street with an abundance of cracks near the intersection of North Franklin Street and East Oak Avenue on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, in Tampa.
  11. Thanksgiving travel: Record traffic expected, but Florida may luck out
    Nov. 22• Transportation
    Travelers wait in a security line at Denver International Airport on Tuesday. Transportation Security Administration officials expect to screen a record 2.9 million travelers on Sunday, the busiest day of the long Thanksgiving weekend.
  12. Her son died in a crash. She wants the other driver off Florida roads.
    Nov. 22• Tampa
    Tammy Ferrer, left, with her husband, Frank, didn’t want her son to buy a motorcycle. She hated the thought of him riding on the frenetic streets of Tampa and Hillsborough County, where more motorcyclists were killed in crashes last year than any county in Florida.
  13. Pinellas girl hit by trolley suffered ‘laundry list’ of injuries, father says
    Nov. 20• St. Petersburg
    Tammy Burch, the 15-year-old Gulfport girl struck by a trolley in downtown St. Petersburg Sunday, poses in this photo taken before her first Homecoming dance at Boca Ciega High School in October 2023.
  14. A migrant killed a deputy. A DeSantis agency’s probe was 2 pages.
    Nov. 20• Elections
    Investigators at the scene in the westbound lanes of I-275 near Gandy Boulevard on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in St. Petersburg, where Deputy Michael Hartwick, 51, was hit and killed overnight Thursday by a construction worker operating a front-end loader at a construction site, according to Sheriff Bob Gualtieri.
  15. Teen girl hit by trolley in St. Petersburg has life-threatening injuries
    Nov. 19• Breaking News
    Yellow tape blocks off the scene where police say a trolley hit a teenage pedestrian in St. Petersburg on Sunday.
  16. Wrong-way driver on I-75 in Hillsborough seriously injures self, another driver
    Nov. 19• Crime
    A car involved in a wrong-way crash was severely damaged on Interstate 75 in Hillsborough County on Sunday morning.
  17. Tampa Port CEO gets raise, bumping him to $597K a year
    Nov. 14• Transportation
    Port Tampa Bay president and CEO Paul Anderson also got a bonus of $350,000.
  18. I-75 northbound in Hillsborough reopens after tractor trailer crash, fuel spill
    Nov. 14• Transportation
    A tractor trailer crash and fuel spill prompted officials to close the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 in Hillsborough County on Tuesday afternoon, but they were later re-opened.
  19. Former city of Tampa employee says she was fired over pregnancy leave
    Nov. 14• Tampa
    Aerial photo of Downtown Tampa overlooking the Tampa Riverwalk and Hillsborough River is pictured in April 2022.
  20. Where did all the Florida lovebugs go? And will they come back?
    Nov. 13• Environment
    Lovebugs crawl across the top of a red rose. Lovebugs, a twice-a-year phenomenon in Florida, have gone away and no one really knows why.
  21. Driver crashes into Highway Patrol car on I-275 in Tampa, injuring trooper
    Nov. 11• Breaking News
    A heavily-damaged Florida Highway Patrol car sits on Interstate 275 near the Interstate 4 interchange in Tampa on Saturday after a suspected impaired driver drove into a construction zone and rear-ended the patrol car, troopers said. The trooper, the driver and a passenger were all seriously injured.
  22. Woman sitting on tracks in Hillsborough hit and killed by train
    Nov. 9• Hillsborough
    A woman was hit and killed by a train in Seffner Thursday morning, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office reported.
  23. Police write 223 tickets in speed crackdown on Gandy
    Nov. 8• Transportation
    Police issued 223 citations during a crackdown on speeders over the weekend on Gandy Boulevard and the bridge. This photo shows traffic backed up on Gandy in April 2017.
  24. Interim Hillsborough transit chief scores $245,000 permanent contract
    Nov. 7• Transportation
    Scott Drainville, center, has served as the agency's interim CEO since April.
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