Which (Light Rail) Line Comes First?

The recently announced update to a light rail study in the Tampa area will evaluate the best options for a "first line." It's either a USF to downtown route, or a Westshore to Downtown route.

Photo from: http://www.tamparail.org/

My thoughts:
The Westshore route to Downtown must include a connection to the airport, and the USF to Downtown route must be routed down Florida Avenue instead of through East Tampa.

Florida Ave runs through a bevy of commercial, residential and community amenities (Lowry Park Zoo/Sulphur Springs Water Tower Park) that would add to the attraction of that line--and a lot of these areas just need that extra push to become highly-regarded neighborhoods in Tampa. They CAN become encouraging places for those that want to live close to the "urban core" can realize their desire, in fact it's already happening.

The East Tampa route admittedly runs through some of the poorest areas of Tampa, does not really reach any area of promise until it hits just north of Ybor, which already has a street car that goes through Channelside into downtown. The one plus is that the right of way is already available from CSX, but I do not feel that getting right of way down Florida Avenue could be a huge issue.

For now, I'll wait for the study to be conducted before I go into any more detail, I will be happy either way...as long as tracks are going in the ground in the best-most impactful-route.