Advantage Pinellas: Long Range Transportation Plan

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About the LRTP

Advantage Pinellas is a strategic plan to improve mobility and economic opportunity countywide. As a metropolitan planning organization, Forward Pinellas determines what transportation projects should receive state and federal funding in Pinellas County with its long range plan.

The plan identifies the major transportation needs for our communities and enables them to receive critical funding in the future – without inclusion in the plan, a transportation project cannot be eligible for this funding resource and may not be built. The newest Long Range Transportation Plan is the Advantage Pinellas plan.

Forward Pinellas creates a new Long Range Transportation Plan every five years.

Project Contact: Chelsea Favero

Email: cfavero@forwardpinellas.org

Phone: 727.464.8250

View the Current Plan – 2045

View the Next Plan – 2050

In Development – The 2050 Long Range Transportation Plan

Planning is underway for the 2050 Long Range Transportation Plan! Forward Pinellas has begun the process to develop a new Advantage Pinellas Plan, utilizing the most recent demographic data from the decennial Census, the most recent project cost estimates coming from the current inflationary climate, and considering the post-pandemic shifts in travel and employment trends.

View 2050 LRTP Documents

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Public Outreach Efforts

Advantage Pinellas Participation Challenge

The Advantage Pinellas Participation Challenge is an interactive website (offered in English & Spanish) where you can share your needs and wants for future transportation projects. Share your thoughts and earn tickets to win prizes!

In the third and final phase, you can view a detailed map with information on proposed projects and provide feedback, as well as pick how you would like funds to be spent across various transportation modes (such as roadways, transit, bicycle-pedestrian).

¿QUÉ CAMBIOS LE GUSTARÍA VER EN EL TRANSPORTE DEL CONDADO DE PINELLAS?

Forward Pinellas, la agencia de planificación de transporte y uso del suelo del condado de Pinellas, solicita su opinión sobre el plan de transporte a largo plazo “Advantage Pinellas”. Para que un proyecto sea financiado, debe estar incluido en este plan. Basándonos en los comentarios continuos de profesionales y del público, hemos desarrollado una serie de proyectos de transporte en todo el condado. ¡Esta es su oportunidad para compartir sus opiniones sobre estos proyectos propuestos!

Participation Challenge / Reto De Participacion

Statistically Valid Survey

A statistically valid community transportation survey was conducted in Spring 2023 to inform the 2050 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) process, or Advantage Pinellas 2050. This survey solicited and summarizes public preferences and priorities related to transportation improvements in Pinellas County.

Read Survey Results

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Focus Groups

As a companion effort to the 2023 statistically valid survey, focus groups are being conducted with Pinellas County residents for additional feedback on the community’s preferences and priorities related to transportation improvements in Pinellas County. This effort will provide detailed and specific information on transportation experiences of residents. Three focus groups are to be completed by Spring 2024.

Community Events

From Fall 2023 to Spring 2024, Forward Pinellas staff attended local community events across the entire county, such as farmer’s markets and educational fairs, to engage with the general public. Staff used Interactive activities and games to gather attendees thoughts. Outreach events were advertised on the Advantage Pinellas Participation Challenge website and Forward Pinellas’s social media pages. Attendees were eligible to receive extra points they could use towards the Participation Challenge to increase their odds of winning prizes.

Forward Pinellas also worked with local cities to publicize this planning effort via print and virtual communications, such as mailing lists, e-newsletters, and printed flyers (offered in English and Spanish).

The Current Plan – The 2045 Long Range Transportation Plan

2045 Plan Documents

Public Outreach

In addition to regional outreach activities, Forward Pinellas has been busy engaging our local residents and stakeholders in a variety of ways. In 2018, we completed a statistically valid survey of the public, which gave us a few key takeaways about what residents want from our transportation and transit systems.

For the 2045 plan, agency staff members attended a wide array of events to gain feedback on what types of projects people want to see funded in the Advantage Pinellas Plan.

If you would like to request a speaker for an upcoming event or association meeting, please contact Planning Manager Chelsea Favero.

2045 Advantage Pinellas – Survey Results

Because Pinellas County residents are the ones who will be using the transportation options we plan for, we asked you to help us decide which projects are priorities over the next 25 years. View a summary of the results.

Forward Pinellas planners explain an activity at a public workshop

Focus group for the 2045 LRTP

Regional Considerations

Along with the MPOs of Hillsborough and Pasco counties, Forward Pinellas has been working to evaluate how the region could grow depending on a variety of transportation investment choices. Tampa Bay is already in the top 20 most populated regions in the country, with estimates that a million more people will move here in the next 20 years. Because growth and transportation do not stop at county borders, the three MPOs have been closely coordinating transportation planning activities.

An online survey, It’s Time Tampa Bay, launched in the summer of 2018 to gauge opinions on transportation and development throughout the region. View results of the survey.

Other LRTP documents are available in the document portal. A full list of amendments and modifications to the LRTP is also available.

Final Days to Weigh in on Transportation Projects for Our County