Brawl After Basketball Game At Wiregrass Ranch High

By Matt Wiley

It turns out that naming a high school basketball rivalry game the “War on 54” may have been a decision that was taken too literally, after several fights broke out involving students after the boys basketball game between Wiregrass Ranch High (WRH, located off Mansfield Blvd.) and Wesley Chapel High (WCH, located on Wells Rd.) on January 30.Continue reading

FDOT Presents Express Toll Lane Project At Public Workshop

More than 100 residents from around Tampa Bay attended the Florida Department of Transportation’s public workshop to check out the proposed ‘Tampa Bay Express’ project, that will add express lanes to several sections of Tampa Bay’s interstates.
More than 100 residents from around Tampa Bay attended the Florida Department of Transportation’s public workshop to check out the proposed ‘Tampa Bay Express’ project, that will add express lanes to several sections of Tampa Bay’s interstates.

By Matt Wiley

Attention Wesley Chapel commuters: if you could, would you pay a little extra to avoid snarled interstate traffic on the way to work? The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) hopes so, as it has announced a concept that could add express toll lanes to several of the Tampa Bay area’s most congested interstate highways. One of those express lanes could begin and end just south of Wesley Chapel.Continue reading

Not Many Improvements Planned For Morris Bridge Rd.

Although the River Landings and Two Rivers developments (above) will bring thousands more homes and vehicles to Morris Bridge Rd., there currently are no plans to widen the road through 2040 in either Pasco or Hillsborough County.
Although the River Landings and Two Rivers developments (above) will bring thousands more homes and vehicles to Morris Bridge Rd., there currently are no plans to widen the road through 2040 in either Pasco or Hillsborough County.

By Matt Wiley

Traveling south on Morris Bridge Rd. from S.R. 54, it’s hard to imagine that there are thousands of homes planned for developments on both sides of the two-lane road (both north and south of the Pasco County line) that currently looks out over mostly rural and agricultural land. However, even with a massive amount of development on the horizon, there aren’t many improvements in Pasco County’s long-range transportation plan for the road that connects Wesley Chapel and Temple Terrace.

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