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St. Pete City Council unanimously on board with removing bus stops from Williams Park

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St. Pete City Council voiced its unanimous support for changes to bus routes in downtown that would eliminate the current hub of bus stops cluttering Williams Park. A new proposed route system is planned to kickoff on Valentine’s Day that would instead create a grid system spreading bus stops out throughout downtown rather than having them all pour in to one spot. Williams Park has served as a transit hub for more than 50 years. Officials have been trying to…

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PSTA officials hoping to use public input in bus improvement plan

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A series of public workshops aimed at letting bus riders have a hand in developing new routes begins this Saturday. Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority officials will also be on hand to explain what will happen to downtown buses when Williams Park stops serving as the area’s transit hub on Valentine’s Day. The first meeting is Saturday at the Campbell Park Recreation Center from 12:30-2 p.m. There PSTA representatives will hear from transit users how they think the agency should best spend…

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PSTA plans to have buses removed from Williams Park by Valentine’s Day

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Pinellas transit officials are looking into shifting bus stops away from downtown St. Pete’s Williams Park onto various other stops across the area. Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority CEO Brad Miller explained the plan during a City Council meeting Thursday morning. The idea is to change the some two-decade-old system Miller describes as “hub and spoke” into a more grid-oriented system. As it currently stands, most of PSTA’s east/west routes — nearly 20 — come in and out of Williams Park…

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More to Williams Park congestion than bus routes

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It’s around 1:30 p.m. on a Thursday, early summer. The sun’s shining down on Williams Park, in downtown St. Pete. People lie in the shaded areas of the grass on the park’s east side, their stuff next to them or under their head as a pillow. A cop car with no cop in it sits in the park’s southwest quadrant, next to an empty fountain with two city employees standing inside it, scrubbing it out. A man on the park’s…

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Join St. Pete Preservation for a ‘Jewels of the Past’ walking tour Wednesday night

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The first of our special evening walking tours will start at 6:30 pm from the “regular” tour starting point in front of the arcade at Central Café & Organics, 243 Central Ave. and next to the Detroit Hotel.  Consider supporting our downtown restaurants by getting a meal before or after the tour.  The tour will be our first that highlights the new markers/plaques and the historic buildings the markers describe around Williams Park that were installed as a joint project…

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Join St. Pete Preservation for a ‘Jewels of the Past’ walking tour Wednesday night

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The first of our special evening walking tours will start at 6:30 pm from the “regular” tour starting point in front of the arcade at Central Café & Organics, 243 Central Ave. and next to the Detroit Hotel.  Consider supporting our downtown restaurants by getting a meal before or after the tour.  The tour will be our first that highlights the new markers/plaques and the historic buildings the markers describe around Williams Park that were installed as a joint project…

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You’re Invited: Unveiling of historic markers at Williams Park

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The unveiling of Williams Park City Square Tour historic marker plaques.  Join Saint Petersburg Preservation and Mayor Bill Foster in the official unveiling of four plaques recognizing historic structures around the city’s original town square, Williams Park.  The plaques denote the history of the Open Air Post Office, St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral, First United Methodist Church, and the Women’s Town Improvement Association building.  Each of these buildings will be featured in the Williams Park City Square historic walking tour.  The…

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