HART Dedicates New Transfer Center in West Tampa
Cutting the ribbon: Ricardo Roig, HART Board Chair; Commissioner Rose Ferlita, HART Board member; Shelton Quarles, TBARTA Chair; David Armijo, HART CEO; Jeanette Fenton, West Tampa CRA manager
Tampa, FL - November 27, 2007 - Next to Raymond James Stadium, on the site of the old Tampa Bay Center mall, an important link to the future of rapid transit in Tampa is about to serve its first passengers.
It is the West Tampa Transfer Center, and HART dedicated it today at 10:30 a.m.
The new transfer center is part of the revitalization of the historic West Tampa area, and will one day be a stop on the East/West route of HART's planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, which will whisk passengers between Temple Terrace and the Tampa International Airport.
HART has used this facility as a transfer center since the mid-1970s, when the site housed the now-demolished Tampa Bay Center.
The West Tampa Transfer Center will serve the following six routes which carry more than 6,000 HART riders each weekday:
Route 7 – West Tampa/Citrus Park
Route 32 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Route 36 – Dale Mabry/Himes Ave. (streetside stop on Himes)
Route 41 – Sligh Ave.
Route 44 – UATC/Habana/Westshore Plaza
Route 45 – UATC/Rome/Westshore Plaza
On hand to cut the ribbon on the WTTC were HART Board Chair Ricardo Roig, HART Board member and Hillsborough County Commissioner Rose Ferlita, Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority Chair Shelton Quarles, HART CEO David Armijo, and West Tampa Community Redevelopment Area manager for the City of Tampa Jeanette Fenton.
The facility includes a 1,100 square-foot building containing passenger and driver amenities, plus nine loading/staging bays with one bus bay on Himes Avenue. It also has three shelters with canopy system, and utilizes the building overhang as shelter for two more bus loading areas.
The mission of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority is to provide public transportation services which are safe, dependable and cost-effective, thereby enhancing the quality of life in our community.
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