When Lauren Chezaud decided to leave Paris over a decade ago, she looked up what was America’s best beach on TripAdvisor. In 2012, St. Pete Beach won the title. So, that’s where she moved to. To have a taste of home, she opened Café Soleil, an award-winning French cafe offering freshly baked bread, pastries and coffee that’s become one of Yelp’s Top 100 Florida restaurants for five years in a .
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri pitched, to the Pinellas County Transportation leaders on Wednesday to start charging for the express bus between downtown and St. Pete Beach.
For almost a year now, the SunRunner has taken residents and tourists alike to the beach and back fast. It's been free to ride, but in July, concerns about the bus were brought up.