by wbt_admin | Sep 7, 2021 | News
Mayor Jane Castor says the city is ending a subsidy for new home builders. Builders counter that the city is trying to fix its sidewalk shortage on the backs of new home buyers. By Charlie FragoPublished Sep. 6Updated Sep. 7 TAMPA — More and more, the question in...
by wbt_admin | Jul 6, 2021 | News, Sponsor
Tampa has much of what it takes to be a great city for walking and bicycling. There’s the great Florida weather, and there’s the 4.5-mile stretch of Bayshore Boulevard, one of the world’s longest continuous sidewalks. The City of Tampa in recent...
by wbt_admin | Apr 12, 2021 | News
TAMPA, Fla. – Following a judge’s decision to give a 24-year prison sentence to the defendant in a 2018 crash that killed a mother and her baby, pressure builds in Tampa to make Bayshore Boulevard safer. Cameron Herrin, who was 18...
by wbt_admin | Feb 11, 2021 | News, Press
More than $6.5 million is available to make city streets safer for walkers and bicyclists through All For Transportation tax collections. But the money isn’t being spent. Walk Bike Tampa President Janet Scherberger talked to Bay News 9 about the need to start...
by wbt_admin | Nov 14, 2020 | Events
Walk Bike Tampa joined the Macfarlane Neighborhood Association and Crime Watch and the City of Tampa on Nov. 14 for the city’s first ever Unlock the Block event. Four blocks of city street were open to kids to walk, bike, play, dance, and celebrate their...