Your Nov. 11 editorial on two local bills submitted to the Hillsborough legislative delegation was strangely contradictory in examining the composition of countywide boards. The Tampa Tribune defends the inclusion of the cities of Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City on the planning commission and sports authority boards yet denies the logic and fairness of city representation on the Hillsborough Environmental Protection Commission board. ...more

November 13, 2007

A long-range transit plan approved Tuesday would have trains and buses crisscrossing Hillsborough County, but officials say the plan is decades - and billions of dollars - from being realized. ...more

November 7, 2007

A long-range plan that projected a slew of new rural roads and two new Alafia River bridges for south Hillsborough County won't go before county commissioners early next year as announced after residents said they were shut out of the planning process. ...more

October 23, 2007

TAMPA - Hillsborough residents can glimpse a new transit plan that would have trains and buses crisscrossing the county. ...more

October 16, 2007

It's back. The on-again, off-again proposed superhighway around Brandon, Sun City Center, Apollo Beach and Riverview has been drawn on a long-range transportation planning map that could go to elected officials for inclusion in Hillsborough's Comprehensive Growth Management Plan. ...more

October 11, 2007

The next few years promise to be challenging ones for drivers on Interstate 75. The Florida Department of Transportation expects to begin widening the interstate soon between Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in Hillsborough County and the Hernando County line. ...more

October 10, 2007

The Florida Department of Transportation expects to begin widening Interstate 75 soon between Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in northern Hillsborough County and the Hernando County line. ...more

October 9, 2007

The county has delayed action on the updated South County Transportation Plan and that has caused concern for some south county leaders who helped draft the plan. ...more

October 4, 2007

The county's long-range planning group, the Hillsborough's Metropolitan Planning Organization, unveiled a plan Monday to have trains rumbling from St. Petersburg to Tampa and Lakeland. ...more

September 25, 2007

Fran Kane is fed up with Tampa's cycling environment. The owner of Flying Fish Bikes blames unenforced laws for leading to unaware motorists and hazardous conditions. He said each of his store's 10 staff members, including him, has been hit while biking. ...more

September 19, 2007