{"id":251500,"date":"2026-04-29T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:22:09","slug":"psta-approves-two-vessel-plan-for-ferry-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251500\/","title":{"rendered":"PSTA approves two-vessel plan for ferry service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 2026 &#8211; The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) board of directors unanimously approved today the plan to acquire and renovate two vessels for <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/tampa-bay-ferry-service-charting-a-year-round-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Tampa Bay Ferry service<\/a> using a $4.8 million federal grant. Currently, boat selections are being finalized. A national search for vessels was conducted by PSTA&#8217;s ferry operator, Hubbard&#8217;s Marina. According to a prepared statement, &#8220;the service will launch as soon as the vessels are retrofitted, tested and delivered to Tampa Bay.&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 29, 2026 &#8211; The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) board of directors unanimously approved today the plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-251500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251500","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=251500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}