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Here is a Press release issued in Mid December from No Tax for Tracks
Greenlight
Pinellas Plan does NOT include Rail link to Tampa!
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA – December
16, 2013
No Tax for Tracks is offering this clarification because The
Tribune and Channel 8 News have broadcast reports stating the Greenlight
Pinellas Plan includes a rail link to Tampa over the Howard Franklin
Bridge. Our research has discovered that
as late as November 2013, there was confusion within PSTA over whether the
Greenlight Pinellas Plan funded a rail line to Tampa. But the Greenlight Plan does not include any
rail, or rail links to Tampa.
At PSTA’s Planning Committee Meeting on November 13, 2013,
PSTA’s CEO, Mr. Brad Miller, said there is no funding in the Greenlight plan
for any rail link to Tampa. Listen to
him explain what kind of funding projects the Greenlight Pinellas Plan contains
by clicking on video.
Based upon Mr. Miller’s statement we are issuing a clarified
map of the Greenlight Plan, for the good residents of Gotham
MEDIA
CONTACT: Barbara Haselden, 727-709-7039
Comment:
What I find interesting is the amount of time the County Commission spent talking about trains, bonds and financing for light rail during the final approval vote meeting. After all the talking they just took the PSTA bait hook line and sinker.
What I find interesting is the amount of time the County Commission spent talking about trains, bonds and financing for light rail during the final approval vote meeting. After all the talking they just took the PSTA bait hook line and sinker.
This is a light rail deal. No doubt about it. All of the
talk about expanded bus service is just icing on the PSTA cake, something to
make the whole deal easier for the public to swallow. And there are no mandates
in the Ordinance requiring PSTA to actually follow through on the bus
commitments.
In their zeal to get this to pass on November 4, PSTA and
their supporters are going to pull out all the stops. Take all of that stuff
that will be showing up in your mail box and on your TV screen with a grain of
salt as pointed out in the press release.
Let's all hope the political fact checkers do their job.
e-mail Doc at: dr.webb@verizon.net, or send me a Facebook (Gene Webb)Friend
request. See More of Doc at Bay Post Internet and St.PetePatch.
Get ready to vote "NO" on the
Transportation Sales Tax Referendum.
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