Tampa Conference Reveals Many Sides of Hunger Problem
According to Feeding America, more than 48 million people in the U.S. are not sure where their next meal is coming from. In Pinellas County, Feeding America identifies 16 percent…
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City of Seminole Recreation Center creates arts program for the digital age
It’s Saturday morning, and Michael Lyman is teaching a class on creating graphic novels. He gestures at a screen filled with giant comic-book panels, pointing to one showing soldiers marching…
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Pinellas County receives $7.1 million in state funding for trail projects
Two major projects connecting and completing Pinellas County trails have received $7.1 million in funding as part of $44.4 million awarded on Tuesday through the Florida Department of Transportation’s SUN…
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Bay Pines Boulevard Presents Challenges for Upcoming Corridor Study
If you ask Joseph Powell, traveling Bay Pines Boulevard can be a perilous endeavor. “I saw four car accidents in three days here last week,” he said. A regular visitor…
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Forward Pinellas issues call for Complete Streets projects
In the 1950s through the 1980s, the primary transportation focus was on getting people from place to place via automobile. Little attention was given to those walking or riding their bikes.…
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Update: FDOT postpones public hearings on Howard Frankland bridge replacement
UPDATE, 10/3: The Florida Department of Transportation has postponed both the Tampa and St. Petersburg hearings to a later date and has announced it will not convert the auxiliary lanes…
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Forward Pinellas board approves county’s first multimodal transportation list
What transportation projects matter most to a community? That’s a tough question, and the answer varies based on who’s being asked. Yet these are decisions that are essential to the…
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Florida Safe Routes To School issues call for applications
Florida Safe Routes to School, a program that funds efforts to increase the number and safety of students walking or biking to school, has opened the call for applications. Applications for…
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Transportation Leadership on the Agenda for Tampa Bay
In the wake of failed transportation funding proposals in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties, there’s a growing chorus of voices on both sides of Tampa Bay about how we finally figure…
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Pasadena Avenue Project to Focus on “All” Users
“I ride my bike to work every day,” Justin Doyle told me while pouring beers on a hot July afternoon at the Horse and Jockey Pub in South Pasadena. He…
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Public Notice – Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
Public Notice Concerning Forward Pinellas, in its Role as Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program In accordance with requirements of the U.S. Department of Transportation as set…
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Public Hearing – Proposed Amendments of Transportation Improvement Program, Public Participation Plan and Countywide Plan Map
On July 13, 2016, Forward Pinellas, in its capacity as the metropolitan planning organization, will hold a public hearing regarding Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) proposed amendments and a proposed amendment…
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