First, Tampa Rail wants to welcome you to Tampa!

You have moved here during an exciting if not transitional period in Tampa's history, making you a true pioneer and an unwitting power in the future of Tampa urban rail solutions. If you're new to the Channelside District, for instance,  you are among just a few thousand enjoying Tampa's premiere rail network as it exists in the Teco Line Streetcar system. Further, you may be from New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Portland, or someplace else considered "mass transit rich" and have a keen understanding of the convenience and critical mobility afforded by modern transit solutions such as subway systems or light rail. You may find yourself wondering where the local high quality transit mode around here.

TR wants to hear from you about your experiences, and it wants your vocal support in these forums, and in local politics. Tampa is at a tipping point between the highly evolved urbanization effort that you have just enrolled yourself in, and the languishing rural mindset that public transportation should be minimized and phased out. This "battle" is real and you are here just in time. Your unique input will be critically relevant to help turn the tide. Make yourself known, and find your voice and power to become part of the change even as you settle in and come to love Tampa as much as we do! Of all TR readers, you are perhaps the most important to the cause. Welcome!  Now, suit yourself up and get ready to  partcipate in this exciting period!  Start simply enough by introducing yourself in this forum.