St. Petersburg City Council Approves Free Public Transit For Low-Income Riders

The City of St. Petersburg is pleased to announce that, effective November 1, 2023, all persons living in St. Petersburg who are enrolled in the Transportation Disadvantaged fare reduction program through the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) will now have the remainder of their monthly bus fare fully covered.....MORE

Transportation Disadvantaged Program Application HERE

PSTA to offer free bus rides for low-income residents going to work

The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority currently offers reduced-cost bus rides to low-income residents who rely on public transportation to get to work. But starting Nov. 1, those rides will be completely free.....MORE

Free PSTA bus rides for Pinellas County students, teachers and staff

As the 2023-2024 school year approaches, the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) will be offering students, teachers and staff free rides on all PSTA buses every day, the company announced Tuesday.....MORE

Plans in the work to create tri-county transit council

Plans are underway to merge three regional transit authority into one council to serve the area. The move would create a regional transit counsel for Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco Counties.....MORE

PSTA and HART talk ups and downs Tampa Bay transit

For the latest episode of The Skinny on WMNF Tampa, Whitney Fox, Director of Communications & Marketing at Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA), and Justin Willits, the new Director of Planning and Scheduling Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART), talk about ups, down, frequency, funding and more.....MORE

Darden Rice Votes Against Electric Buses?

PSTA approves the purchase of seven new hybrid-electric buses.The decision came at Wednesdays PSTA meeting, where there was a very high turnout of all-electric bus supporters – most affiliated with the Sierra Club. here

Of the 15-member board, eight voted for buying hybrids; the other seven voted against it.