St. Petersburg Times
Published: 19-Oct-2006

Now that federal funding is off the table for a possible Suncoast Parkway extension, officials from Florida's Turnpike Enterprise have disbanded two groups geared toward exchanging information and opinions on the project. The Suncoast Parkway Advisory Group and the Environmental Resource and Regulatory Agency Group will no longer meet, according to letters turnpike environmental management office manager Raymond A. Ashe Jr. Sent to group members last week. In the letters, Ashe wrote that the "design updating process does not require or accommodate" the groups.