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PSTA FacilitiesIn 2005, PSTA moved into its new administration,operation, and maintenance facility located at3201 Scherer Drive in St. Petersburg. This newfacility replaced the operations facilities located on28 th Street South in St. Petersburg and theoperations and administrative facility on 49 thStreet North in mid-county. This facility allowsPSTA to operate from one central location withadditional space for service expansion. The newfacility can accommodate up to 125 administrativepersonnel, 160 maintenance personnel, 600 busoperators, and 300 buses.PSTA has three major transfer terminals, including Williams Park in St. Petersburg, Park Street inClearwater, and Grand Central Station in St. Petersburg. Other transit centers include: Tyrone SquareMall, Gateway Mall, The Shoppes at Park Place, Largo Mall, the 34 th Street Lay-By at PSTA, Tarpon Mall,25 th Way and Roy Hanna Drive, Clearwater Mall, Westfield Countryside Mall, Seminole Mall, and IndianRocks Shopping Center.There are three existing park-and-ride facilities in Pinellas County. Table 4-1 shows the location, condition,use, and site specifications for these three lots. PSTA often takes inventory of these sites and uses thatinformation to determine which park-and-ride facilities are the most successful, as well as which lots requireimprovements.FDOT District seven has identified potential sites in its “Regional Park-and-Ride Lot Plan.” According toFDOT staff, this plan, which was developed prior to the 2001 PSTA TDP, is the most recent documentranking the potential park-and-ride sites. Further discussions with the FDOT District Seven staff alsorevealed that no update for the plan is scheduled in the near future. Table 4-2 shows the top 9 potentialpark-and-ride sites based on this plan. Each of the nine sites in the table is ranked according to a numberof criteria ranging from connectivity to the public transportation system, to safety and other criteria. Aweighted score is determined for each potential site and is commonly referred to as a “utilization” score.FDOT research has shown that the higher the score, the more successful the site will be. Map 4-1 showsthe locations of the existing and potential park-and-ride facilities in Pinellas County.Tindale-Oliver & Associates, Inc.Pinellas Suncoast Transit AuthoritySeptember 2010 4-5 Transit Development Plan