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Right-Sizing Drew Street for Safety, Accessibility and Mobility

Bicycle Friendly Community, Complete Streets, Director's Blog, Pinellas, SafetyBy Whit BlantonMarch 22, 2023

By Whit Blanton, FAICP The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is preparing design plans for Drew Street between North Osceola Avenue and US 19, with about $8 million in place…

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A Look Back at 2021

Director's BlogBy Whit BlantonJanuary 13, 2022

By Whit Blanton, FAICP One thing we’ve learned from the last two years is the critically important 4-way intersection of community, economics, transportation, and health. Through a global pandemic, economic…

Turning Words into Action

Complete Streets, Director's Blog, Parks and Trails, Pinellas, Planning for the future, SafetyBy Whit BlantonDecember 21, 2021

By Whit Blanton, FAICP and Angela Ryan At the City of Dunedin City Commission Workshop, Tuesday, December 12, 2021, Mayor Buljalski and her fellow commissioners put their words into action,…

PASSENGER RAIL

Next Steps for Passenger Rail in Florida and Tampa Bay

Director's Blog, Pinellas, Planning for the future, Regional TransportationBy Whit BlantonDecember 15, 2021

By Whit Blanton, FAICP Regional leaders formally renewed discussions of developing passenger rail in Tampa Bay with state officials from the Florida Department of Transportation last week. The meeting, hosted…

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Saving Our Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons Means Saving Lives

Bicycle Friendly Community, Complete Streets, Director's Blog, Regional Transportation, SafetyBy Whit BlantonOctober 6, 2021

By Whit Blanton, FAICP During the last two sessions, the Florida Legislature has introduced and advanced bills that purport to be about pedestrian safety by modifying or restricting use of…

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Proposed Law Would Put Pedestrians At Risk

Planning for the future, PrioritiesBy Whit BlantonMarch 29, 2021

Florida is in the middle of its legislative session for 2021, which ends on April 30. During this time each year, state lawmakers debate whether to pass bills that could…

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Electric Bicycles Give Rise to a New Mobility and Some Questions

Bicycle Friendly Community, Director's Blog, PinellasBy Whit BlantonMarch 1, 2021

By Whit Blanton Perhaps you’ve seen them?  The fat-tired, bulky framed or squat bicycles with the bulging disk of a heavy, black battery sitting on the rear rack or inside…

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Introducing Amy Elmore

Blog, Director's Blog, NewsBy Whit BlantonApril 17, 2020

We are delighted to welcome Amy Elmore aboard as Forward Pinellas’ Communications & Outreach Program Manager. One of the most important things we do as an agency is to work…

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The Problem with Earmarks

Blog, Director's BlogBy Whit BlantonJanuary 14, 2020

Sometimes doing a good deed does not turn out all that well in the end. As the 2020 Florida Legislative Session begins, we need to discuss earmarks, those legislator-added line…

Planning for saving lives over saving time

Blog, Director's Blog, SafetyBy Whit BlantonSeptember 22, 2017

You read about them in the paper just about every day: an elderly man killed crossing 34th Street S in St. Petersburg, hit by a driver at 1:42 AM. Or maybe…

Sidewalk built over I-64 to connect a residential neighborhood with jobs and services.

Lessons learned from St. Louis

Blog, Director's BlogBy Whit BlantonApril 19, 2017

While building transportation projects is a contentious process in Tampa Bay, we are not alone in struggling to engage the community and get projects done. I wrote in my previous…

Building community by learning from others

Blog, Director's BlogBy Whit BlantonApril 11, 2017

One of the first lessons I learned as a consultant many years ago is that every community has its own public decision-making process. What flies by with no commentary in…

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