Thursday, January 2, 2014

Dumb Tampa Bay tweeters of the day

Here's a couple of nominees for dumb tweet of the day.

First up Brad Miller, CEO of PSTA:
 So PSTA needs $100M per year tax hike for some more shade at the bus stops?

Not to be outdone, TBARTA tweeted about some new bike path scheme in London:

Well, if you follow the link,  there is some plan (dream?) in London to build 220km of elevated bike paths in London.
[T]he design team has focused on a 6.5km trial route from Stratford to Liverpool Street Station, following the path of the overground line, a stretch they estimate would cost around £220 million.
If you do the math,  the entire 220km (about 135 miles) of bike paths would cost around £8 billion, or $12.2 billion.

Yeah, that'll happen.

Both Brad Miller and TBARTA seems to be missing some basic math skills.

I'll call it a draw for today, but we'll be looking for the tiebreaker!

2 comments:

  1. You can look through all the Greenlight Pinellas docs on the website, you won't find any mention of bus shelters. So it isn't part of the plan.

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  2. If I remember correctly, I believe the bus shelters in Tampa were an idea of then commissioner Brian Blair, who got corporations to sponsor shelters and the taxpayer paid nothing for them.

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