{"id":374692,"date":"2026-08-18T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374692\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:38:50","slug":"first-psta-ferry-arrives-in-pinellas-as-tampa-bay-service-moves-closer-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374692\/","title":{"rendered":"First PSTA Ferry Arrives in Pinellas as Tampa Bay Service Moves Closer to Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Commissioner Lori Weaver, who also serves on the PSTA board, said the project will bring business to Tarpon Springs during the refurbishment process and after the ferry service begins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing the vessels here, locally, means so much to not only the city of Tarpon Springs, but also to the families and businesses of Pinellas County and our region as a whole,\u201d Weaver said.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard\u2019s Ferry facilitated the purchase of the vessels and will operate the service once it begins. The company has worked with PSTA on bringing the vessels to the region.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Hubbard, CEO of Hubbard\u2019s Ferry, said the arrival of the Bay Breeze represents the result of a regional effort involving PSTA, business organizations and the company.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry project has also received support from the St. Pete Area Chamber of Commerce and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Commissioner Lori Weaver, who also serves on the PSTA board, said the project will bring business to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-374692","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\/374692","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=374692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}