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    Widen I-275 in Tampa and watch the traffic jam up

    By Hoyt L. Prindle III,

    30 days ago
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    An aerial view from October 2021 looks south on Interstate 275 toward Interstate 4 and downtown Tampa from just north of the I-4 exit. [ DIRK SHADD | Times (2021) ]

    Earlier this month, the Hillsborough Transportation Planning Organization decided to again break a problem it had fixed years ago. Led by Commissioner Joshua Wostal, the group voted 8-7 to put back on the priority list a freeway widening project on I-275 that had previously been shelved. This vote, like so many decisions by local transportation overseers, illustrates just how outdated Tampa Bay’s transportation planning actually is.

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    Hoyt Prindle [ handout ]

    For years, neighborhood residents organically banded together to fight further freeway widening on I-275.

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