Lost Without The GPS This past weekend, the PW and I spent an awful amount of time learning how to get around on the streets of an unfamiliar location without our navigation device. We were in the Ellenton area where the tanker truck destroyed the bridge over State Road 301 on the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 last week. Our motel was located in the Prime Outlets Mall area, within a half mile of the accident. Thank goodness we had a few friends who were familiar with the area and gave us maps to use to get around most of the congestion. Even so, it was impossible not to get into some standstill traffic jams. But before we left Sunday morning, the authorities had devised routes and some rerouting of traffic, which made traffic flow almost normally. ...more

June 12, 2008

A brilliant lightning strike that sent fire down the power lines fried a traffic signal at Powell Road and Broad Street on Tuesday afternoon and tied up traffic for more than two hours. ...more

June 11, 2008

SEMINOLE HEIGHTS - Nebraska Avenue is closed in both directions as firefighters battle a three-alarm fire at the oldest hardware store in Tampa. ...more

June 8, 2008

Workers this morning opened one lane of U.S. 301 in each direction at Interstate 75 where a tanker plunged off the interstate bridge and exploded on Wednesday. ...more

June 8, 2008

If you plan to drive to Central or North Florida if a hurricane threatens the Tampa Bay area, the Department of Transportation has a plan that may help you. Here's what you need to know about contra-flow: ...more

June 1, 2008

NORTH PORT -- A brush fire closed the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 75 between mile markers 182 and 187 for a couple of hours Friday night, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Sarasota County Fire Rescue estimates the interstate will reopen in one to two hours. ...more

May 30, 2008

If you plan to drive to Central or North Florida if a hurricane threatens the Tampa Bay area, the Department of Transportation has a plan that may help you. Here's what you need to know about contra-flow: ...more

May 23, 2008

Discussion about putting the kibosh on New Tampa's east-west toll road dominated Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio's transportation summit Monday, but it wasn't the only news to come out of the regional roundtable. ...more

May 10, 2008

NEW TAMPA - Discussion about putting the kibosh on New Tampa's east-west toll road dominated Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio's transportation summit Monday, but it wasn't the only news to come out of the regional round table. And the $150 million toll road, which would connect Tampa Palms to Interstate 275, wasn't the only project to suffer from lack of funding. Officials from Hillsborough and Pasco counties, Tampa and the Florida Department of Transportation took turns giving updates on road projects in various stages of development. ...more

May 7, 2008

The status of resurfacing North Dale Mabry Highway between Waters and Fletcher avenues is on the mind of German Jordan. ...more

May 3, 2008