March to Stop the TBX I-275 Boondoggle

March to Stop the TBX Boondoggle

Growing Stop TBX Coalition Announces it’s newest partner, The Downtown Arts Civic Association

Tampa, Fla., March 5, 2016 – Following the end of the second round of a series of three FDOT Charrettes (Community Engagement Meetings) the Stop TBX Coalition has gained the full support of the Downtown Arts Civic Association, Jeff Zampitella, President.

The STOP TBX Coalition
* Linda Saul-Sena former Tampa City Council Member
* Tampa Heights Civic Association,
* Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association,
* Seminole Heights Business Guild,
* South East Seminole Heights Civic Association,
* South Seminole Heights Civic Association
* Downtown Arts Civic Association

The TBX project is a boondoggle, and has been identified as such in a national report covering the worst highway projects in the nation.* Express toll lanes are wrong for Tampa - but, TBX is not a done deal. Concerned citizens are continuing to organize and protest this too costly, short-sighted project that squanders crucial transportation funds, destroys historic Tampa and does not meet the community’s transportation needs.

What: A march to protest the loss of historic homes, churches, businesses, parks and green space caused by this project that calls for massive widening and expansion of I-275 along the VM Ybor sector

Participants will wear yellow ponchos, a symbol of the customary color used on construction projects to denote Caution- as well as to create an aerial view of how wide the swath of destruction would be.

Who: Stop TBX Coalition and Sunshine Citizens
When: Saturday, March 5, 2016
Time: 11:00 am to 1:00pm
Where: Neighborhood Empowerment Center: 2105 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL 33602,

Contact:
Michelle Coockson 813-267-1098
Linda Saul-Sena 813-503-1919