Regional transportation plan is subject of phone-in iTownHall meetings

If your telephone rings next week, it might be TBARTA calling.

The Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority, the group trying to put together a seven-county transportation and light rail system, is going to randomly call residents starting next week and ask them to participate in a phone-in town hall meeting, in a system called iTownHall.

For those not called, you can take part, too, if you like. Just call toll-free, 1-877-269-7289 and enter PIN# 14837 prior to each call. The schedule for which TBARTA elected officials, staffers and appointed board members, and the full news release, is after the jump:

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Political Whore Podcast #5: Mark Sharpe on our transportation future and a light rail system

On the Friday after his Hillsborough County Commission voted 7-0 to start the ball rolling for a 2010 sales-tax increase referendum to pay for transportation improvements, Commissioner Mark Sharpe sat down for the HoCast recording session to talk about how we must embrace better mass transit, including light rail.

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