County officials cut ties with the Cross Bay Ferry linking Tampa and St. Petersburg when the service failed to meet speed targets. The boats will stop running on April 30.
“As a result, Hillsborough County is going to exercise its right and terminate the pilot program at the end of April. It is essentially because the ferry company is unable to provide for its end of the deal, which is a vessel that is sized to get people across the Bay in an hour,” said Commissioner Harry Cohen to ABC Action News.
The company wanted to switch to a slower vessel, which would double trip times. Their proposed boat would move at just 15 knots, stretching the usual one-hour crossing into a two-hour trip…