Plans for a year-round Tampa Bay Ferry with a known local commodity operating two vessels at roughly half the cost of the previous company are full steam ahead.
St. Petersburg City Council members enthusiastically and unanimously agreed to a funding agreement for the new service Thursday afternoon. The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, now overseeing the initiative, selected Hubbard’s Marina to operate the much-anticipated Tampa Bay Ferry in September.
Tampa and St. Petersburg will each pay up to $350,000 annually for the service and receive a percentage of revenues. The design phase for a permanent ferry dock at the St. Pete Pier is also anchors aweigh, and Councilmember Brandi Gabbard noted that “all of the pieces are finally starting to come together.”…