5 Public Transportation
5.1 Existing Facilities
HART has three different routes that serve South County (Figure 37): 1) Local bus Route 31 operates on weekdays and has starting and ending points at the Amazon Warehouse in Ruskin and the Westfield Brandon Mall in Brandon. 2) Limited express bus route 75LX operates on weekdays and has starting and ending points at Kings Point in Sun City Center and the Westfield Brandon Mall in Brandon. 3) South County FLEX is available on weekdays and provides both door-to-door service and regular circulator bus service, with designated stops near SR 674 in South Hillsborough County. Door-to-door service is available for customers who pre-book on the phone.
Figure 37. Existing transit routes Source: HART & Hillsborough MPO - SouthShore Transit Study Reevaluation, 2018
Accessibility/transit travel sheds in the South Hillsborough County area were found to be located more than a 10 minute bus ride from downtown, Tampa International Airport, Westshore Mall, MacDill Airforce Base, and the University of South Florida, with a small portion of the study area being within a 10 minute bus ride of Brandon. The 10- year needs plan identifies needed improvements to “enhance existing HART services in the core service areas, connect the areas outside of the core to the core network, and add technologies and modes to expand the scope of HART’s services” (HART, 2017, p.10 -1). The
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