Ticket to ride: $44M bus route gets go-ahead

Pinellas County transportation agency breaks ground on SunRunner, a Bus Rapid Transit line that will link St. Petersburg and St. Pete Beach.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. August 28, 2020
Courtesy. U.S. Rep Charlie Crist, D-St. Petersburg, hands over a $28.1 million check to the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority for the new SunRunner bus service.
Courtesy. U.S. Rep Charlie Crist, D-St. Petersburg, hands over a $28.1 million check to the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority for the new SunRunner bus service.
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About a year and a half from now, Pinellas County residents and visitors will have a new way to travel between downtown St. Petersburg and the county’s magnificent beaches when the SunRunner, the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority’s first Bus Rapid Transit line, opens for business. 

 

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