{"id":313612,"date":"2026-06-19T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313612\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:38:11","slug":"psta-plans-to-announce-the-purchase-of-two-vessels-for-tampa-bay-ferry-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313612\/","title":{"rendered":"PSTA plans to announce the purchase of two vessels for Tampa Bay Ferry service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Pinellas County Transit Authority (PSTA) will announce the purchase of two vessels that will form the foundation of the region&#8217;s new Tampa Bay Ferry service.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, June 22, PSTA will announce new details about the purchase and share the next phase of renovations and preparations before entering service. <\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes after the previous ferry service, the Cross Bay Ferry, was discontinued at the beginning of 2025. In December 2025, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-pinellas\/tampa-bay-ferry-service-set-to-return-with-new-operator-and-year-round-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PSTA approved plans to restore the ferry service<\/a> with new operators.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2026,<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-pinellas\/tampa-bay-ferry-to-return-with-year-round-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> PSTA announced initial plans to purchase two vessels<\/a> to get the service back up and running.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Ferry service would transport residents between Tampa and St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>10-year-old Pasco County boy suffers life-threatening injuries after accident<\/p>\n<p>State troopers said a 10-year-old on a bicycle attempted to cross the highway when he was struck by two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>10-year-old Pasco County boy suffers life-threatening injuries after accident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Pinellas County Transit Authority (PSTA) will announce the purchase of two vessels that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[109061,596,107032,12824,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,130520,208],"class_list":["post-313612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-ferry","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-psta","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-ferry-service","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313612","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=313612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}