Alliance Calls For State Investigation Of Tampa Regulator - The Florida Intrastate Transportation Alliance (FITA) has called upon Florida Senator Victor Crist to open a state investigation of the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission (HCPTC). The HCPTC is a special district created by a special act of the Florida Legislature with statutory empowerment to regulate certain classes of vehicles-for-hire to include private chartered limousines and small buses within Hillsborough County. Due to the location of the major interstate transportation hubs located in the City of Tampa, the HCPTC has taken its statutory authority and expanded its limited geographical reach to include jurisdictions and traveling consumers not under its authority. In addition, the commissioners of this agency are on public record scheming of avenues of approach to create local ground transportation monopolies of the interstate transportation hubs in Tampa and have denied motor carriers not based in Hillsborough authority to enter the county for the sole purpose of loading prearranged and/or chartered passengers for intrastate carriage. Referencing Federal and State intrastate transportation statutes as well as the Florida Constitution which prohibits any special law being enacted that regulates an occupation regulated by a state agency, FITA has called upon Senator Crist to enjoin the Florida Attorney General in an investigation of the HCPTC and the special act itself.