{"id":386307,"date":"2026-08-31T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:53:49","slug":"st-pete-beach-ending-freebee-shuttle-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386307\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Beach ending Freebee shuttle service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. \u2013 City officials have ended the city\u2019s on-demand shuttle services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/freebee-st--pete-beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Freebee service<\/a>, an on-demand shuttle service, provides rides within St. Pete Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2022\/10\/27\/freebee-st--pete-beach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freebee has been operating in St. Pete Beach for nearly 7 years<\/a> and replaced the PSTA buses and trolleys which drove into Pass-a-Grille. The city commission decided it couldn\u2019t afford to continue the service.<\/p>\n<p>At their meeting last week, commissioners said the city is still hurting financially from the 2024 hurricanes and so they&#8217;re looking for ways to cut funding.<\/p>\n<p>However, a formal vote was not held.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only public transportation on the chopping block along the beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psta.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority<\/a> also is considering cutting Route 90 which provides bus rides from the beach to the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>PSTA officials said the service would continue at least through the rest of this year while staff closer examines ridership and cost factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. \u2013 City officials have ended the city\u2019s on-demand shuttle services. The Freebee service, an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,558,2287,115,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,729],"class_list":["post-386307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386307","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=386307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}