Our young-professionals-for-transit group, TRANSITion Tampa Bay, was featured in Robert Trigaux's column in the St. Petersburg Times today (see below). We're building some great momentum. Help us out by following us on Facebook and Twitter and attending our events. A website is in the works and should be launched next week.
"A fledgling young business professionals group is carving out a niche as next-generation supporters of the push for better mass transit in the Tampa Bay area. The group calls itself TRANSITion Tampa Bay.
Its co-founders include Brett Milke, 24, and Brian Seel, 25, (son of Pinellas County Commissioner Karen Seel) — two local University of Florida pals who now are project engineers for construction companies. Milke, who works for the Murray Co. in Clearwater, says the new grass roots effort wants to link with other young professional groups like Emerge Tampa to build more buzz for mass transit — specifically for the November ballot referendum in Hillsborough that seeks a 1-cent sales tax increase to help fund light rail and a better bus service in the county. Especially now that the feds have kick-started a high-speed Tampa-Orlando rail project.
TRANSITion Tampa Bay has an event with a speaker from HART (Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority) Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m., in South Tampa at the Lime, 915 S Howard Ave. It is still pulling a Web site together, but you can find info about the group on Facebook. One economic development group lending a hand, meeting space and some introductions to the new organization is the pro-mass-transit Tampa Bay Partnership."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/area-auto-sales-sluggish-compared-to-the-national-numbers/1077222
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