{"id":20523,"date":"2013-04-08T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20523"},"modified":"2013-04-08T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:53:06","slug":"carver-city-area-targeted-for-mass-transit-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20523","title":{"rendered":"Carver City Area Targeted For Mass Transit Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A vital piece of real estate that lies between downtown Tampa and Tampa International Airport is being looked at as a possible location for a major mass transit hub.<\/p>\n<p>Carver City-Lincoln Gardens Civic Association President, <strong>Dr. Maurice Harvey<\/strong>, said they are trying to schedule a meeting with the Westshore Alliance Group to discuss a better location for the proposed transportation hub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it came up a few years ago, it was put aside,\u201d said <strong>Dr. Harvey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen <strong>Governor Rick Scott<\/strong> said no to the rail when he took office, everything was put on hold. Now, it\u2019s surfacing again, and we\u2019re trying to get it headquartered at Westshore Plaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Harvey<\/strong> said Westshore Plaza is already set up to accommodate a mass transit system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was originally targeted for Carver City, but that land was sold for construction of a huge apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew this area would be impacted negatively if the mass transit headquarters was in our community. We\u2019re already experiencing a traffic overload with the reconfiguration of the interstate, and other projects in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong> Dr. Harvey<\/strong> said the original plan was designed to go down the middle of I-275, and the roadway is still designed to accommodate that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently, something is going on now we don\u2019t have all of the information about. We\u2019ve only gotten bits and pieces of information, but nothing is carved in stone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, everything is fragmented. There are a lot of players involved in this. Without any funds appropriated, it\u2019s just a discussion right now. I think they have bigger issues to deal with right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Harvey<\/strong> said adding to their traffic woes will be the construction of three huge apartment complexes in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where all of the attention is right now. We\u2019ve had meetings with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and other transportation officials, and everything is just proposed right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people targeting this community, and to facilitate the increase in traffic we\u2019re already experiencing, Spruce Street will have to be widened between Himes Avenue and Lois Avenue. That is a vital stretch of road, and property acquisitions have to be made before that is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Harvey<\/strong> said it\u2019s possible that with so much interest being given to the Carver City-Lincoln Gardens area, a lot of developers have simply run out of space for their projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, our attention is pointed toward how much additional traffic will be flowing through this area after the three new apartment complexes are completed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer A vital piece of real estate that lies between downtown Tampa and Tampa International Airport is being looked at as a possible location for a major mass transit hub. Carver City-Lincoln Gardens Civic Association President, Dr. Maurice Harvey, said they are trying to schedule a meeting with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}