Pinellas Transit Authority expands ferry choices between Clearwater Seashore, downtown

CLEARWATER, Fla. – The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority joined forces with the present ferry operator, Clearwater Ferry, to increase the service on Friday. 

The brand new choice for getting from downtown Clearwater to Clearwater Seashore and again leaves from Coachman Park on the downtown aspect. It docks on the Clearwater Seashore Marina a half hour later, then heads again to downtown.

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State grants and cash from town of Clearwater and the PSTA helped pay for the undertaking. 

It’s open from 10 a.m. to eight p.m. Thursday by way of Sunday between February and September 1 and is free this weekend. 

Officers take photograph on new photograph to mark its opening. 

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The ferry will ultimately additionally cease in Dunedin as soon as the dock there, which was broken throughout the hurricanes, is repaired.

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It’s PSTA’s first time dipping its toes in water transportation. 

Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector says it’s a game-changer for each vacationers and locals.

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“We need to be sure that this park is linked to the seaside to supply our hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of tourists increasingly alternatives to expertise Clearwater and to have an excellent number of actions whereas they’re right here,” Rector stated. 

Rector continued, saying, “One of many issues many don’t notice is the significance of this type of transportation to our seaside employees, the numerous employees, hundreds of them that assist us preserve the hospitality trade going, that serve all these vacationers coming in.”

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