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Our Florida DOT secretary believes Jetsonian Technology will help relieve congestion.
“What if there was an opportunity to have what we call vertiports in Orlando and Tampa, and there could be thousands of these vehicles flying back and forth on the I-4 corridor?” Perdue said to members of the House Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee. “So, you can think about movies that you’ve seen that are science fiction. Continue reading
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Let’s ignore free congestion management while heading back to the office. Or, let’s not.
Last week, Government Technology released an article about the cause and effect of decreasing remote work, Traffic on the Rise as Employers Scale Back Remote Work. “I couldn’t believe the reduction in working from home in these tech cities. That shocked me,” said Bob Pishue, a senior economist and transportation analyst at INRIX, and one of the Continue reading
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An Op-ed on National Highway Robberies (and also what that means for Tampa Bay).
Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which spearheaded policies like the National Environmental Policy Act to prevent communities from being under poor infrastructure projects, there has been little accountability over highway widening projects driven by manipulated vehicle-per-day projections. Despite “nationally, the United States spends nearly $150 billion per year on road and highway construction” Continue reading
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Something new for 2025.
So we have been very sick after a pretty cool vacation through rural America around and through the Smoky Mountains. Needless to say, we couldn’t end the year on a recap post nor start right on the mark of the new year. But being sick gave us time to think a bit about a new Continue reading
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Delila Smalley is in a tough spot in Orlando but her voice and actions are getting heard.
August, earlier this year, Streetsblog USA posted a piece on the realities of deadly intersections and roads in Florida through the lens of a transportation activist in Orlando named Delila Smalley. “Florida is home to eight of the 20 deadliest metros in America for pedestrians. But how does that constant thrum of traffic violence actually Continue reading
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Franklin Street: Put some palms and containers along it for $6 million.
Franklin St. has always been an interesting place in Tampa, as it is probably one of the few places that has faced several proposals and design tweaks during the latter part of the 20th century. Probably the most recent enormous improvement in the past 20 years was the streetcar stop at Franklin and Whiting (going Continue reading
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Wider highways don’t solve congestion. So why are we still knocking down homes to build them?
Jonah Vu writes about her traumatic experiences when the I-405 in San Diego decided to add additional “Express Lanes.” While her home remained, the transportation agency had to rent part of her backyard and “temporarily removed the wall separating my home from the busiest interstate in any U.S. city, flooding the neighborhood with traffic and construction Continue reading
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New tires every 7,000 miles? Electric cars save gas but tire wear shocks some Florida drivers
It looks like one of the biggest industry concerns regarding EVs, its weight, is finally illustrated by personal economics and buyer’s remorse. “If somebody looked at me and said, Mr. Semel, you are going to love this car but in about 7,000 miles you will have to pay 1,400 or 1,500 dollars to replace the Continue reading
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‘Back to the Future’ for the start of the year.
“EV drivers in Central Florida just took a step closer to that sci-fi dream becoming a reality because the state has just granted approval for a new toll road that will contain an electrified section capable of charging electric cars. To be called State Road 516, the east-west link connects Highway 27 in Lake County and State Continue reading
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