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A proposed merger of regional transportation planning bodies is drawing pushback from Pinellas County leaders, who argue the current structure would give Hillsborough County outsized control over billions in future infrastructure decisions.
The debate surfaced publicly during a Forward Pinellas meeting, where officials discussed a plan to combine Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties into a single Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), referred to as a Transportation Management Area (TMA).
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