TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in Tampa on Monday to announce funds for multiple infrastructure upgrades in the region.<\/p>\n
Duffy announced a $16.5-million Federal Transit Administration award to the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) for a new passenger ferry connecting Tampa and St. Petersburg\u2019s downtowns.<\/p>\n
At Port Tampa Bay, Duffy also announced a $1 million MARAD shipyard grant for Gulf Marine Repair Corps to upgrade infrastructure and expand welder training.<\/p>\n
And while at Tampa International Airport, he highlighted upgrades coming to the facility, including radar, voice switches, and fiber upgrades, along with a planned new control tower.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have so many commercial aircrafts, so many business in general aviation, but then we\u2019re going to bring these eVTOLs, the Jetsons in, and then we have drones coming in,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cWe have to be ready for a future that\u2019s way different, way more use of the airspace than we\u2019ve ever seen in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in Tampa on Monday to announce funds for multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,558,276,2287,115,275,135,137,136,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-374869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374869","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=374869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}