{"id":14540,"date":"2025-10-21T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14540\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:57:07","slug":"sunrunner-celebrates-its-third-anniversary-of-making-pinellas-county-roadways-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14540\/","title":{"rendered":"SunRunner celebrates its third anniversary of making Pinellas County roadways safer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">ST PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; SunRunner celebrates its third year on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas<\/a> roads with a reduction in crashes and improved travel times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2025-10-21-16h06m44s910.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Pinellas County Transit Authority <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Data gathered by Forward Pinellas shows that the SunRunner corridor is safer for all users where lanes were repurposed. Those crashes are shown to be reduced by up to 40%.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/governor-desantis-touts-moving-florida-forward-initiative-accelerating-projects-hillsborough-pinellas-polk-counties\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. DeSantis touts \u2018Moving Florida Forward\u2019 initiative, accelerating projects in Tampa Bay area<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Re-timing of traffic signals along the corridor has saved drivers up to six minutes during morning rush hour and three minutes in afternoon traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2025-10-21-16h06m19s005.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Pinellas County Transit Authority <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Total ridership in three years is over 2,551,745 with an average of 70,883 passenger trips per month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The SunRunner project was significantly funded by a\u202f$21.8 million Capital Investment Grant (CIG) from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) during President Trump\u2019s first administration.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Based on every metric, SunRunner has been an overwhelming success with a reduction in congestion and fewer accidents,&#8221; said PSTA Board Chair Deborah Figgs-Sanders. &#8220;The SunRunner has been a real solution, making our roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/transportation\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; SunRunner celebrates its third year on Pinellas roads with a reduction in crashes and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,1798,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-14540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pinellas","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news","17":"tag-transportation","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}