Transit Features

Five bucks. Ten bucks. Twenty bucks a voter. All for TRANSITion, stand up and holler! Brett Milke is among the cheerleaders for TRANSITion Tampa Bay, a motivated group of young professionals willing to pay the price for supporting transit: Give up a beer ($5), a movie ticket ($10) or half a tank of gas ($20) each month in exchange for improved transportation -- better roads, more buses, light rail.

83 Degrees spent the day -- before, during and after the President's Jan. 28 Town Hall meeting in Tampa at the University of Tampa -- listening to what people had to say about high-speed rail and recorded interviews with several participants and observers.