Top-level business leaders from the Tampa Bay Partnership traveled this week to Charlotte, North Carolina to evaluate the city’s transit system and identify ways the Tampa Bay region can shore up its woefully inadequate system.

Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, Vology CEO Barry Shevlin and Rhea Law, chair of the Florida offices of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney law firm, recapped the trip with reporters Friday morning, offering a compelling argument for increased transit opportunities but failing…