At the Tarpon River Civic Association meeting last night, Mayor Trantalis addressed the debate currently going on between the city and the county on whether the FEC tracks over the New River should be handled with a new bridge or a tunnel.
A bridge would be cheaper to build – but not to maintain – and its construction would be much more disruptive. It would further divide the city, stretching for more than a mile and rising as high as the 17th Street bridge. A tunnel would take the tracks and make them disappear underground – in effect, removing the division that exists today. It seems the obvious answer, and I was encouraged to hear that the mayor is behind it.
