Tampa’s TECO Line Streetcar has busiest month ever with 108K rides in March

Only one city in the U.S. outpaces Tampa for its streetcar ridership. But that’s just temporary, as far as Mayor Jane Castor is concerned.

“No. 2 only behind Kansas City,” she said of ridership numbers. “And we know what we did to Kansas City when they came to the Super Bowl. We’re going to do the same thing with our streetcar ridership.”

The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) announced Tuesday that Tampa’s streetcar service had its busiest month in close to 20 years of service. Nearly 108,000 riders took trips on the 2.7 miles of track in March.

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