Dick Greco Plaza is a
HARTline
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (also known as the Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART)) provides public transportation for Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough County, Florida. The agency operates fixed-route local and express bus ser ...
transit center located in the southern end of downtown Tampa across from the Marriott Waterside and the
Tampa Convention Center
The Tampa Convention Center is a mid-sized convention center located in downtown Tampa, Florida at the mouth of the Hillsborough River. It has both waterfront views of Tampa Bay and views of the city's skyline. Harbour Island is across the epo ...
. It was the former terminal station for the
TECO Line Streetcar
The TECO Line Streetcar System is a heritage streetcar transit line in Tampa, Florida, Tampa, Florida, run by the HARTline, Hillsborough Area Regional Transportation Authority (HART), owned by the city of Tampa, and managed by Tampa Historic Stre ...
until the opening of the Whiting street station. It still serves as the terminating point for the In-Town Trolley routes. The station opened on January 30, 2003, and cost $3 million to build.
The station was officially dedicated on May 29, 2008, in honor of
Dick A. Greco, a former mayor who was instrumental in bringing streetcars back to Tampa after an almost 60-year absence. A statue of Greco sitting on a bench was added just outside.
See also
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Light rail in the United States
The United States has 27 light-rail systems, as counted by the Light Rail Transit Association, not including streetcar systems. Six of them (Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon), San Diego, and San Francisco) achieve more than ...
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List of streetcar systems in the United States
This is a list of past and present tram, streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. ''System'' here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the st ...
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Streetcars in North America
Streetcars or trolley(car)s (American English for the European word ''tram'') were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American cities and towns. Most of the original urban streetcar systems were either dismantled in the mi ...
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Transportation in Florida
Transportation in Florida includes a variety of options, including Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, and Florida State Roads; Amtrak and commuter rail services; airports, public transportation, and sea ports, in a number of the state's count ...
References
External links
Official page
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2003
TECO Line Streetcar System stations
2003 establishments in Florida
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