Who:
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
Patrol Operations Bureau
Support Services Bureau
-Grants Administration

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)

What:
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has received a $47,155 grant from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for a High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Project.

The purpose of the project is to educate and enforce safe pedestrian, bicyclist and driver behavior in designated hot spot areas in an effort to reduce traffic crashes and fatalities involving pedestrians and bicyclists.

When:
The details will begin on Friday, December 19, 2014 and run through May 31, 2015.

Where:
The first detail will be held on Tampa Road from Lake St. George to East Lake Woodlands Parkway.

Subsequent details will be conducted at various north and south Pinellas County locations. (See list below.)

Why/How:
Beginning on December 19^th, 2014 and through May 31st, 2015, Pinellas County deputies will be conducting on-the-street high visibility education and enforcement operations regarding pedestrian and bicycle safety. The monies for the project were received from the Florida Department of Transportation.

The operations will include the distribution of educational materials, as well as the issuance of warnings and/or citations to pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists in accordance with Florida Statutes. The operations will follow an education, warning citation progression. Deputies say the operation will begin with the education and warnings discretion and on March 15, 2015 will transition to a citations discretion.

The details will be assigned two deputies, will be conducted three times per week in four hour segments; and will frequent each of the 15 designated “hot spot” locations on multiple occasions.

The locations are:
Alderman Road (Belcher to Cinnamon Hill Boulevard)
US Highway 19 (Tampa Road to CR 95)
Curlew Road (Belcher to CR 90/Northridge Drive)
Main Street/SR 580 (Belcher Road to Lake Haven Road)
Ulmerton Road (Belcher Road to 58^th Street North)
49^th Street (126^th Avenue North to 145th Avenue North)
66^th Street North (46^th Avenue North to 62^nd Avenue North)
54^th Avenue (37^th Street North to Haines Road)
Park Boulevard (104^th Lane to Ridge Road) 
Pasadena Avenue (Gulfport Boulevard South to Gulf Boulevard)
Gulf Boulevard (75^th Avenue to 37^th Avenue)
Gulf Boulevard (129^th Avenue West to 131^st Avenue West)
Gulf Boulevard (150^th Avenue to 155^th Avenue)
Gulf Boulevard (155^th Avenue to 173^rd Avenue)