More than a decade after planners first sketched it out, Tampa's Green Spine Cycle Track is nearly finished. The 3.5-mile protected, two-way bike route now threads through North Hyde Park, downtown, Ybor City and East Tampa, separated from car traffic by raised concrete dividers along the completed portions.
The finished route is described by the City of Tampa as a 3.5-mile protected, two-way bike route featuring three-foot raised concrete dividers between cyclists and drivers. Under the InVision Tampa plan, the corridor was designed as the east-west protected bike route connecting North Hyde Park, downtown and Ybor City to the Riverwalk, according to tampatransportation.org.
WFLA reported that the 3.5-mile cycle track separates people biking and driving with raised concrete dividers along most of its route. The project took more than a decade to complete.
The Final Stretch Along Cass Street
The last piece the City built, officially known as Phase 2A, runs more than one-third of a mile along W. Cass Street between N. Howard Avenue and N. Rome Avenue, the station notes. Construction on that segment began in October 2025 and wrapped up in September 2026, according to the same report.
Not every inch is finished, though. A small section near N. 15th Street remains pending and is expected to be completed by an FDOT contractor once interstate work in the area wraps up, the station reported. One completed piece of the system, Segment 3B, runs along Nuccio Parkway in historic Ybor roughly from Seventh Avenue to 13th Avenue as a bi-directional cycle track physically separated from traffic, per tampatransportation.org's project page, which lists the segment under project TRANS20038 and credits it to the City of Tampa.
Linking Up With the Riverwalk
The Green Spine also connects with the West Riverwalk project at two locations, according to FOX 13 News, which had previously reported the final construction phase was expected to wrap by late summer 2026. The extension that eventually became this finished stretch was still under construction as of January 2025, when WUSF reported the route would ultimately be extended by three miles to connect North Hyde Park, downtown and Ybor City while providing access to the Riverwalk.
Figures on what the project cost differ depending on the source and scope being measured. The station's report on the completed route put the total approximate cost at $8 million, with nearly 80% covered by grants and the remaining $1.6 million coming from municipal funds. A separate accounting from 83degreesmedia.com, published in September 2025 while the expansion was still under construction, put the combined cost of two project phases at $4.44 million, with most of that covered by two federally funded Florida Department of Transportation Local Agency Program grants.
Ridership Numbers Show Steady Use
A municipal counter has been tracking how many people actually use the corridor. It registered nearly 80,000 cyclists in 2025, and had counted close to 60,000 so far in 2026 as of the station's report. The City has framed the Green Spine as part of a broader push on bike infrastructure: in a 2023 announcement unveiling its Tampa MOVES mobility plan, the City of Tampa said it had built more than 20 miles of new bike lanes and three miles of protected bike lanes over the preceding four years, including segments of the Green Spine Cycle Track.
