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Our Plan

Establish Southside Saint Petersburg as the Pinellas Peninsula’s junction for seamlessly connecting the 75 mile Pinellas Trail Loop (the Fred Marquis, Duke Energy, & North Bay trails) & the Skyway Bridge related trails (12 miles) ultimately with the FL Coast to Coast Trail (250 miles). By immediately aggregating these existing assets, 55% of our 13-mile multimodal sustainable transportation loop interlinking seamlessly our bikeways & bike trails will then be completed.

 

The City’s SunRunner (east-west electric rapid bus system) at our Warehouse Arts District junction connects:

• our downtown employment cluster center (St Pete Pier, museums, galleries, vast collection of culinary, arts, & shopping venues, healthcare, Innovation District, marine science research, etc.) with our Gulf Beaches employment cluster center.

• southward via the Deuces Bikeway (a biking & recreational branding of 22nd St So corridor) through the Deuces Live rich historic African American business & adjoining neighborhood community with Dell Holmes Park & Lake Maggiore’s unique Subtropical Ecosystem and

• with our USF Bowers Murray Pathway (an ADA Therapeutic Recreation & Adaptive Cycling Path) providing environmental, educational, & accessible therapeutic recreation while then continuing westward connecting with the Skyway & Skyway Bridge Trails & the Skyway Marina District employment cluster center.  

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               City Arts, Museums, & Heritage • African American Heritage • Urban Ecotourism • Therapeutic Recreation

Our Goal

With this resulting increased bicycle traffic including visiting bike tours, we wish to create equity & reconnect our previously historically excluded Southside community. If this regional coalition approach is then properly focused upon with increased marketing & promotion efforts, the resulting economic benefits from the aggregation of our exiting Pinellas Peninsula’s assets will be new local, regional, state, & international visiting bicyclists enjoying our:

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City Benefits Resulting from the Aggregation of  Existing  the Pinellas  Peninsula's Assets

 

Residents: Additional safe, free, and/or low-cost transportation connections with our museums, the Warehouse Arts District, schools, employment/job training opportunities, parks, recreation centers, libraries, social & medical services, & churches.

 

Increased Economic Tourism Drivers: The Southside Greenway with its 13-mile loop with 3 bidirectional hubs connecting to the Pinellas Trail Loop will then join other elite cities utilizing an emerald necklace in support new & valuable targeted increased tourism via regional, state, & international visiting bicyclists: e.g.,Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, & Orlando.

 

THE Deuces Live Business Neighborhood Community Corridor: With the growing eBike usage especially by aging cyclists, safe comfortable travel times connecting our peninsular are now being dramatically reduced.

 

Deuces Bikeway Riders: Those who utilize the Warehouse Art District intersection to the City Museums & Arts environment can also enjoy a southward journey through the historical African American Deuces Live historic corridor arriving at Lake Maggiore’s Subtropical Ecosystem with its ADA Therapeutic Recreation & Adaptive Cycling Path directly connecting westwardly with the Skyway Trail & the Skyway Bridge Trail with its 7 mile loop surrounded by the waters Tampa Bay & Gulf of Mexico......

 

....will then also greatly accelerate the rebuilding of our previously historical excluded community!!