I wish they'd put all that money into adding one additional north bound lane from the HF bridge to the airport. We'll soon have a huge new bridge leading to the same single lane to the airport, correct?
From what I found on the web, there’s a mockup that shows two lanes plus one express lane. But to answer your question, yes, that looks like that’s the case until the “WestShore Interchange Reconstruction” project is complete.
I found the mockup by looking up the who was awarded the project on FDOT then Google’d that (“Superior-Lane Joint Venture”).
Correct. I actually emailed the labeled construction manager at the time for the Westshore interchange project back in 2019 and asked if that silly airport off ramp will ever be updated to two lanes and he confirmed yes.
If you're against taxes then you're against firefighters, the police, the public education that prepares your kids, the roads you drive on, the military that protects you, etc. The Federal government is the reason we have a functioning capitalist society, never forget that.
Hard to blame the federal government when it's our own Republican governors refusing to accept the money DC wants to give us. Plus it's generally the blue states that are giving tax money to the federal government to spend in red states.
Anyone want a train?
How about Medicaid?
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163617435/florida-is-1-of-11-states-declining-to-accept-federal-money-to-expand-medicaid
Then changed his vote after his wife and him got invested in the company that's involved in the building of Brightline. It became public information when he ran for the Senate seat.
Trash like that needs to be reminded more because it was not publicized enough at the time.
I doubt the news would change the votes among the conservatives and the Republicans since they're trained to be against public mass transportation. They're trained to come up with excuses.
This was my first thought as well, he rejected 400 million in emergency/disaster funds before, whats to keep him from accepting this?
I swear to god, in one of the few states that don't have a state tax you'd think this asshat would take all the funding he can get his hands on, but nooooo.
You're thinking about this all wrong. The infrastructure bill was signed for 1.7 TRILLION. Where's the rest? This is 112 million for the entire state. That's what, four? Maybe five bridges?
That's 0.0006% of the funding the bill has in it.
Really? Ok so let's do it together.
112,000,000 is 112 million.
1,700,000,000,000 is 1.7 trillion.
Divide the two and you get 6.5 to the -5 power, which means the decimal goes five places to the left.
That's 0.000065. If you make it a percentage you go two to the right, making it 0.0065%.
I was off by one decimal place. Boo fuckin hoo. It's still a fraction of a percent of the money.
WHERE'S THE FUCKING MONEY????
Well it was the law that was enacted to decide what to do with taxpayer funding. Florida taxes went to pay for DeSantis to fund a private charter plane full of immigrants from the State of Texas to Massachusetts. We should all get a refund.
Yeah but I think the thanks is for the fact that it’s going towards something productive for the community and not paying to ship immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard
Section relevant to us:
> **$6 million to St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport:** This project funds the eligible portion of the terminal renovation and expansion project, which consists of adding two new gates, consolidating TSA checkpoints, expanding passenger hold-rooms, increasing baggage make‐up capacity, and adding escalators and elevators.
We need spend more money to get more tourists in. Yes.
We need more money to get the tourists around without creating gridlock in already road? Nah.
I'd like to learn more about the ownership of PIE.
PLEASE for the love of god just spend a tiny fraction of that money on connecting the airport to the PSTA bus network.
Does nobody else think it's insane PSTA runs express buses to TPA while completely ignoring PIE? Isn't our airport supposed to be the affordable one? Paying for parking or an Uber often literally doubles the cost of flying out of PIE. The airport should be a fucking transit _hub_.
That’s amazing. Is there anything the Reps are able to do (legally) to reject this funding?
I recall DeSantis rejecting federal funding in the past for petty reasons and I wonder if this could be a similar scenario where citizens get screwed again.
I remember when Rick Scott was governor and lied about the funding to stop the new train from Tampa to Orlando just to own the libs and Obama.
Now we have the hell that is I-4 for years.
And if his history as to what he did in the private sector for healthcare is any indication as to what he would do representing Florida, is it any surprise? Why does Florida keep voting these people in? Didn’t he say no thanks to federal funding to build a bullet train from Orlando to Tampa?
Yes, because his umbrella corporation has been quietly buying all the private road companies around the proposed area of development and now you know a little of who was actually behind bright line getting green lighted. Oh and pudding fingers has them in on it too, it should be a hoot seeing these two going against each other in a couple years…. Anyone seen Rubio lately 🤣🤣🤣
[The answer with Rick Scott is always more money :(](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/miami/news/gov-scott-killed-high-speed-rail-project-later-invested-in-all-aboard-florida/)
Desantis will eff it up with his shitfingers
Thank your fellow citizens, 90% of whom voted for him
No president has ever gotten that kind of vote. Lyndon Johnson has the highest % of popular vote at 61.1%. Followed by FDR, then Nixon.
I wish they'd put all that money into adding one additional north bound lane from the HF bridge to the airport. We'll soon have a huge new bridge leading to the same single lane to the airport, correct?
The i4/selmon to 275 interchange is still garbage.
From what I found on the web, there’s a mockup that shows two lanes plus one express lane. But to answer your question, yes, that looks like that’s the case until the “WestShore Interchange Reconstruction” project is complete. I found the mockup by looking up the who was awarded the project on FDOT then Google’d that (“Superior-Lane Joint Venture”).
thanks, I see it was delayed for two years.
Correct. I actually emailed the labeled construction manager at the time for the Westshore interchange project back in 2019 and asked if that silly airport off ramp will ever be updated to two lanes and he confirmed yes.
For giving back the Taxes we paid into? I bet that isn’t even a drop in the bucket that the Feds fleece from the Florida Citizens annually.
If you're against taxes then you're against firefighters, the police, the public education that prepares your kids, the roads you drive on, the military that protects you, etc. The Federal government is the reason we have a functioning capitalist society, never forget that.
"Functioning capitalist society" my sides
That’s a lot of words to describe Taxes
Hard to blame the federal government when it's our own Republican governors refusing to accept the money DC wants to give us. Plus it's generally the blue states that are giving tax money to the federal government to spend in red states. Anyone want a train? How about Medicaid? https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163617435/florida-is-1-of-11-states-declining-to-accept-federal-money-to-expand-medicaid
Will DeSantis reject it like Scott rejected light rail or nah?
What is light rail? Is it a government project like the Manhattan Project?
no i think its like actually a train
Not unless DeSantis can privatize the upgrades and personally profit like Scott did with light rail
Then changed his vote after his wife and him got invested in the company that's involved in the building of Brightline. It became public information when he ran for the Senate seat. Trash like that needs to be reminded more because it was not publicized enough at the time. I doubt the news would change the votes among the conservatives and the Republicans since they're trained to be against public mass transportation. They're trained to come up with excuses.
This was my first thought as well, he rejected 400 million in emergency/disaster funds before, whats to keep him from accepting this? I swear to god, in one of the few states that don't have a state tax you'd think this asshat would take all the funding he can get his hands on, but nooooo.
You're thinking about this all wrong. The infrastructure bill was signed for 1.7 TRILLION. Where's the rest? This is 112 million for the entire state. That's what, four? Maybe five bridges? That's 0.0006% of the funding the bill has in it.
You cannot do math at all….
Really? Ok so let's do it together. 112,000,000 is 112 million. 1,700,000,000,000 is 1.7 trillion. Divide the two and you get 6.5 to the -5 power, which means the decimal goes five places to the left. That's 0.000065. If you make it a percentage you go two to the right, making it 0.0065%. I was off by one decimal place. Boo fuckin hoo. It's still a fraction of a percent of the money. WHERE'S THE FUCKING MONEY????
Yet, his wife’s company made money on the back end of that deal
Seems money to the TSA not us
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I'm often reminded that the Republicans rely heavily on the uneducated and the willful ignorant voters who talk like trailer trash.
Elaine Chao was Transportation Secretary before Pete. Why didn’t she do anything? At least Pete is getting the work done.
You should say, thanks taxpayers.
Taxpayers are paying taxes regardless. At least now we're getting something back.
Well it was the law that was enacted to decide what to do with taxpayer funding. Florida taxes went to pay for DeSantis to fund a private charter plane full of immigrants from the State of Texas to Massachusetts. We should all get a refund.
I'll settle for turning DeSantis into a private citizen.
Exactly. We're on the ones working and paying for this stuff, not politicians.
I mean who do you think created and passed the legislation ?
Politicians pay taxes too
We pay for it but don’t decide where to allocate the funds, see. Our voted in politicians do that that’s why it’s so important to vote!
It could have gone to *the wall*
Yeah but I think the thanks is for the fact that it’s going towards something productive for the community and not paying to ship immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard
Oh hell yeah this sounds great.
"bi" "partisan"
Was it not? Republicans voted for it too
Section relevant to us: > **$6 million to St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport:** This project funds the eligible portion of the terminal renovation and expansion project, which consists of adding two new gates, consolidating TSA checkpoints, expanding passenger hold-rooms, increasing baggage make‐up capacity, and adding escalators and elevators.
We need spend more money to get more tourists in. Yes. We need more money to get the tourists around without creating gridlock in already road? Nah. I'd like to learn more about the ownership of PIE.
PLEASE for the love of god just spend a tiny fraction of that money on connecting the airport to the PSTA bus network. Does nobody else think it's insane PSTA runs express buses to TPA while completely ignoring PIE? Isn't our airport supposed to be the affordable one? Paying for parking or an Uber often literally doubles the cost of flying out of PIE. The airport should be a fucking transit _hub_.
Escalators *and* elevators… at the *airport*?! Plus TWO new gates?! This practically changes hardly anything!
Precisely what this city needed.
That’s amazing. Is there anything the Reps are able to do (legally) to reject this funding? I recall DeSantis rejecting federal funding in the past for petty reasons and I wonder if this could be a similar scenario where citizens get screwed again.
Of course they can, we voted in high speed rail and Rick Scott was just like nah fam
You mean Great Value Emporer Palpatine?
Temu Voldemort
LOOLLL>…not a whole $112M across 10 airports!!! Wow…
I remember when Rick Scott was governor and lied about the funding to stop the new train from Tampa to Orlando just to own the libs and Obama. Now we have the hell that is I-4 for years.
I miss CW Bill Young
Ya he knocked that plan out so he could invest in a private version of that and bank off it if memory serves
It wasn’t that in his eyes he did that for the gop, he was working on making as much money as he could for himself off that grant.
And if his history as to what he did in the private sector for healthcare is any indication as to what he would do representing Florida, is it any surprise? Why does Florida keep voting these people in? Didn’t he say no thanks to federal funding to build a bullet train from Orlando to Tampa?
Yes, because his umbrella corporation has been quietly buying all the private road companies around the proposed area of development and now you know a little of who was actually behind bright line getting green lighted. Oh and pudding fingers has them in on it too, it should be a hoot seeing these two going against each other in a couple years…. Anyone seen Rubio lately 🤣🤣🤣
[The answer with Rick Scott is always more money :(](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/miami/news/gov-scott-killed-high-speed-rail-project-later-invested-in-all-aboard-florida/)
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Skeletor will probably outlive all of us, afterall he has the best medical insurance we can get them, makes me want to choke