Book 1 - City of St. Petersburg

BASIS OF DESIGN BOOK 1
3 GENERAL PLANNING CRITERIA
SITE AND URBAN
DESIGN CRITERIA
(continued)
Site Access
Figure 3.24 illustrates the existing routes of access to the St.
Petersburg Pier. The major street arterials for the site are Second
Avenue NE and Bay Shore Drive NE The primary freeways in
proximity of the site are I-175, I-275 and I-375
Public Transit Lines
Central Avenue Trolley: operating 7 days per week, free fare
between the Pier and The Shops at St. Pete (formerly BayWalk),
$0.50 reduced fare from Grand Central Station at Central Avenue
and 31st Street.
Downtown Looper: operating 7 days per week, 50 cent fare with
service every 15 minutes
During operating hours (Sun-Thu 10 am-5 pm, Fri/Sat 10 ammidnight),
the Looper stops at each Pier lot on its way to and
from the Pier. Service to and from the Pier head is provided
approximately every 15 minutes. Additionally, the Central
Avenue Trolley (CAT) operates an overlapping route to and from
the Pier that also serves the lots, at the same frequency as the
Looper. However, the CAT’s last stop at the Pier is at 11:10 pm on
Friday and Saturday, as opposed to midnight for the Looper. This
combined service provides an average 7.5 minute headway from
10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. On nights and weekends
the average headway is approximately 10-15 minutes.
In addition to the above-described service, the Pier utilizes cityowned
trolleys to provide service for employees before the Pier
opens in the morning and after it closes at night, with city-owned
vehicles augmenting Looper and CAT service during nights and
weekends to reduce the headways and accommodate larger
capacity crowds. This allows night/weekend headways to be in
the 5 to 7 minute range.
City-owned trolleys have a capacity of 26, while the two models
of the Looper trolleys have respective capacities of 15 (open air)
and 28 (enclosed). CAT vehicles are 35 passenger trolleys. 28 and
35 passenger trolleys use diesel; the 15 and 26 passenger trolleys
use gas. A portion of the CAT vehicles are hybrid diesel/electric.
All vehicles have wheelchair lifts.
Trails
St. Petersburg’s CityTrails are facilities for non-motorized traffic,
primarily bicyclists and pedestrians. The North Bay Trail provides
access from the starting point of the Pinellas Trail at 1st Avenue
South and Bay Shore Drive north to Vinoy Park, North Shore Pool
and Park, the Gisella Kopsick Arboretum, Flora Wylie Park, Elva
Rouse Park and to the Centennial Human Sundial at Vista Point.
The existing downtown North Bay Trail system will be enhanced
with 1 mile of out and back trail at the new Pier.
www.stpetecitytrails.org
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THE NEW ST. PETERSBURG PIER