Shelton Quarles will step aside as chairman of TBARTA regional transit agency
It was a horrible choice in the first place, and the idea that Shelton Quarles was going to be the happy face of a regional tax referendum to pay for rail transit was pretty ludicrous. So today we hear that Quarles, the former Tampa Bay Bucs linebacker, will step stepped down. Bay Buzz reports:
Shelton Quarles, the former Bucs linebacker turned transportation authority chairman, is resigning from the board, vice chairman Frank Hibbard said today.
“I was just told yesterday that Shelton had resigned,” Hibbard said, saying the resignation was effective immediately and he would begin overseeing the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority board.
Read my story “Tackling Transit,” on Quarles when he was first appointed and the controversy about his selection.
And read Quarles PR statement released late today after the news already broke. Good job getting out in front of it, TBARTA:
