Electric Bicycles Give Rise to a New Mobility and Some Questions
By Whit Blanton Perhaps you’ve seen them? The fat-tired, bulky framed or squat bicycles with the bulging disk of a heavy, black battery sitting on the rear rack or inside…
By Whit Blanton Perhaps you’ve seen them? The fat-tired, bulky framed or squat bicycles with the bulging disk of a heavy, black battery sitting on the rear rack or inside…
Explore the new Forward Pinellas website and see how we’re helping Pinellas! In our role as Pinellas County’s land use and transportation planning agency, there are a lot of things…
Tarpon Springs and St. Petersburg are the latest local governments in Pinellas County seeking funding under the Forward Pinellas Complete Streets Program. Started in 2016, the program provides direct funding…
More than 500 St. Petersburg residents and visitors took the Downtown St. Petersburg Mobility Survey this summer telling us how they travel to and around Downtown St. Pete, as well…
Where We Were After extensive community outreach and collaborative effort between local governments, the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), and Forward Pinellas, The Gateway Master…
Forward Pinellas Division Manager Al Bartolotta is retiring next month after a 32-year career in urban planning. He started with the Pinellas County Planning Department in 1988, where he worked…
In Florida’s most densely populated county, change is constant. As the Pinellas Planning Council and Metropolitan Planning Organization, Forward Pinellas strives to bring everyone together to serve the needs of our community and create a vision for the future.
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The legislative committee prepares legislative priority positions, monitors active legislation, and discusses a range of potential concerns and issues related to state and federal legislative affairs. Public participation is solicited without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, or family status.
Find out more »Forward Pinellas is governed by a 13-member board of elected officials. These officials represent municipal governments, the Board of County Commissioners and the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority. Public participation is solicited without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, or family status.
Find out more »The BPAC provides input and direction on bicycle and pedestrian related issues, plans and policies. Public participation is solicited without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, or family status.
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Find out more »PINELLAS COUNTY —- Help us celebrate Florida Bicycle Month this March by joining us for a free biking scavenger hunt! Forward Pinellas is pleased to announce our 2nd self-guided “Bike…
PINELLAS COUNTY, FL —- Forward Pinellas, the Pinellas County transportation and land use agency, is thrilled to announce the debut of our new website at www.ForwardPinellas.org.
PINELLAS COUNTY, FL —- The Forward Pinellas Board awarded the City of Tarpon Springs and the City of St. Petersburg with over $1 million for Complete Streets projects. These projects…
The success of Forward Pinellas involves everyone, from our stakeholders, to our board members, neighborhoods, and local partners. We need your help to keep moving Pinellas forward!