This Johnny Fonts has been on Twitter 11 years
John "Johnny Fonts" Fontana started his life on Twitter 10.22.2008 -- 11 years ago today....
(Im)mobility in Tampa Bay
A quick reaction to a day spent researching transit aid for the disabled. {Not sales talk, btw]...
Stimulating idiocy
The St. Petersburg Times took local area governments to task on their requests for economic stimulus project funds. Most of them were low key, beautification...
My issue is transit
The one local issue that I have hit on and written about over various mediums the last ten years is transit and mass transit here...
Trip Planner sucks
You know, I wrote a bitter remark about the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority’s web site and local mass transit a few weeks ago, and I...
You can't get there from here
It’s spring now and Florida’s weather is perfect. Touching near eighty with blue sky stretching as far as you can see. A wisp of cloud...
Don't let these lapse
(x-posted over at the Sticks) Last year, I purchased a couple domain names – TampaBayRail.com and TampaBayRail.net. I intended to launch a web site on...
Another nail in Amtrak's coffin?
I’m not trying to knock Amtrak as so much declare there is a major need of a revamped national railway system… This latest incident is...
Will wonders never cease?
Well, Johnny wrote letters to the Clearwater City Councel along with Pam Iorio and Rick Baker (in seperate letters) discussing the possibility of a ferry...
Pinellas Rail's Backwards Tale
Well, well, well, the Pinellas County MPO gave their blessing to a slightly-poor-but-better-than-nothing Monorail system in Pinellas County. The seeds of Mass transit are either...
Hoyt Hamilton, come on down!
I got a response from Councilmember Hoyt Hamilton of the Clearwater City Council over the Ferry idea that I floated with them. He brought up...
Got Marketing? Segway of Clearwater doesn't
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m big on the Segway HT. The media laughs at it, people in general ridicule it...