{"id":394831,"date":"2026-09-09T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394831\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:00:10","slug":"psta-secures-funds-for-permanent-st-pete-ferry-dock-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394831\/","title":{"rendered":"PSTA secures funds for permanent St. Pete ferry dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority is reaching another milestone before it launches the new Tampa Bay Ferry service.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is receiving $850,000 in federal funds to build a dock in downtown St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The permanent downtown St. Pete dock will go right in front of the Vinoy Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a temporary dock will be installed off Bayshore Drive in downtown St. Petersburg, across from Straub Park North.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same spot the Cross Bay Ferry used. Tampa, meanwhile, already has a dock built because of the former Cross Bay Ferry Service.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/06\/22\/psta-set-to-announce-purchase-of-ferry-boats-for-revamped-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PSTA\u00a0announced the purchase of two boats for its revamped ferry servic<\/a>e.<\/p>\n<p>The previous ferry service ended in April 2025. The previous Cross Bay Ferry operated with only one boat, which prevented it from running seven days a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new Tampa Bay Ferry will operate all year round, seven days a week, with more daily trips between St. Pete and Tampa than the Cross Bay Ferry offered. A schedule has not yet been released, but the service is expected to begin before the end of the year. One-way tickets will cost $10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority is reaching another milestone before it launches the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,558,276,2287,115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,11901,1798],"class_list":["post-394831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","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-transit","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394831","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=394831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}