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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. Is Tampa so big-time now they actually give golf cart tours of it?
    May 25• Business
    With the Tampa skyline as backdrop, one of Clint Bertucci’s golf cart tours heads toward Armature Works in the Heights District.
  2. A day with the staff who clean Tampa’s bus stops
    May 24• Transportation
    Route maintenance attendant Tashika Washington cleans a bus stop near the intersection of North 22nd Street and East Chelsea Street on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Tampa.
  3. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor leaves Hillsborough transit agency board
    May 23• Transportation
    Tampa Mayor Jane Castor speaks during a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority board meeting March 6 in Tampa. Castor picked recently elected City Council member Gwendolyn “Gwen” Henderson for the four-year board seat.
  5. Wimauma teen who survived fatal crash gets device to help her walk
    May 22• Health
    Cruz Cervantes-Garcia, 29, and his sister, Jasmin Cervantes-Garcia, 13, laugh together at their home on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, in Wimauma.
  6. How will Florida’s new immigration law impact law enforcement?
    May 19• Politics
    Tampa Bay police departments said they are not currently conducting traffic stops to check driver’s licenses despite Florida’s new immigration law, which will not recognize documents issued by other states to those without legal status. Here, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister speaks to reporters on Sept. 14 in Tampa.
  7. The road to fear-free biking in Tampa
    May 18• Transportation
    "The city has built some good stuff but it is not well connected," Christine Acosta said of Tampa's cycling infrastructure. "It’s almost like being in a beautiful place, like a tropical island, and then all of a sudden you’re at a cliff — in real peril, in real danger."
  8. What to expect under Florida’s immigration bill? Uncertainty.
    May 13• Politics
    Over a hundred people gathered during an Immigration Town Hall questions and answers session on Thursday, May 11, 2023 in Tampa.
  9. Amid Tampa skepticism, regional transportation plan advances
    May 10• Transportation
    The Hillsborough Transportation Planning Organization — elected and appointed officials overseeing transportation planning in the county — on Wednesday agreed to participate in a state-mandated study of combining the panel with its counterparts in Pasco and Pinellas counties.
  10. Florida may study use of radioactive waste in building roads despite warnings
    May 8• Environment
    An April 14, 2021, drone image shows a partially drained wastewater reservoir at Piney Point, with Tampa Bay visible in the distance. Florida may begin to study whether a radioactive waste byproduct of fertilizer production, phosphogypsum, can be used to help build roads, under a bill passed by the state Legislature in May 2023. A March 2021 leak at Piney Point resulted in the release of an estimated 215 million gallons of polluted water into Tampa Bay and caused massive fish kills.
  11. Ybor City fountain at I-4 is expensive, problematic and going away
    May 8• Tampa
    This fountain at Interstate 4 in Ybor City costs $100,000 a year to run. It will soon become something else.
  12. Florida immigration bill sparks fear over racial profiling, discrimination
    May 5• Politics
    Protestors rally at Lake Eola Park in Orlando on Monday, May 1, 2023. Hundreds gathered to protest, among other things, the immigration bill working its way through congress.
  13. Hillsborough’s $570 million sales tax refund dead for this year
    May 4• Transportation
    The Florida Legislature failed to agree on how to refund nearly $570 million collected by the Hillsborough transportation sales tax. It was approved by voters in 2018, but voided by the Florida Supreme Court in a February 2021 ruling. [Tampa Bay Times (2018)]
  14. Hillsborough transit chief departs, taking $88,000 with her
    May 2• Transportation
    Board members talk to each other during a special meeting to discuss the future of HART CEO Adelee Le Grand at the HART administrative headquarters on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Tampa.
  15. Meet the people protecting the Howard Frankland Bridge from storms
    May 2• Transportation
    Keith Anderson, left, project superintendent with Archer Western and Taylor Brothers, speaks with Mark Monreal, project executive at The Walsh Group - Walsh Construction & Archer Western, on-site as construction continues on the new Howard Frankland Bridge.
  16. Hillsborough sales tax refund includes legal fees - but for whom?
    May 1• Transportation
    The are millions of dollars set aside for legal fees in the plan to refund the nearly $570 million collected by the 2018 voter-approved transportation sales tax that was later voided by the Florida Supreme Court. [Times (2018)}
  17. After 2 Tampa Bay delivery attacks, gig workers worry about dangers
    May 1• Crime
    Luis Cosme, a Lakeland resident who works in Tampa, helps direct a caravan rally of about 200 vehicles outside Tampa International Airport on Friday to launch a Florida guild of Uber and Lyft drivers. One of the things they're advocating for is better protections for drivers.
  18. Florida lawmakers seek to delay Clearwater’s Drew Street overhaul
    April 28• Clearwater
    Drivers negotiate Drew Street between Highland Avenue and Betty Lane Wednesday, April 5, 2023 in Clearwater.
  19. Bricking Ybor’s Seventh Avenue to restore historic look could cost $12 million
    April 28• History
    The City of Tampa government is considering paving Seventh Ave. in Ybor City with bricks.
  20. St. Petersburg now has Lime electric bikes
    April 26• Business
    Lime debuted its electric bike program in St. Petersburg on April 26, 2023.
  21. Florida widow sues cruise line, says husband’s body left to decompose
    April 22• Transportation
    A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband's body after he died while they were on the Celebrity Equinox in August 2022, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered extreme emotional trauma.
  22. SunRunner to add stop near Pier, two new buses next year
    April 21• St. Petersburg
    Riders enter and exit the SunRunner at Grand Central station in January. In its first six months, the rapid bus line topped 600,000 total passengers, officials said Friday, as they announced an expansion planned for next year.
  23. Lost at that spot on Tampa’s Riverwalk? This new art could help
    April 21• Tampa
    This mural, being painted on a downtown Tampa street, is designed to help users of the popular Riverwalk at a spot where it can get confusing.
  24. How’s that Hillsborough sales tax refund coming? Dueling plans exist
    April 20• Transportation
    Mailers promoted the 2018 1% sales tax for Hillsborough County transportation that voters approved but the Florida Supreme Court later voided. How to refund the nearly $570 million escrowed from the tax is being debated in Tallahassee. TIMES (2018)
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