Mica proposes cuts in U.S. transportation fund, Jax projects in danger

[thelakelander]

Local projects awaiting federal money and in danger of being delayed or scrapped could include a regional transit center at the Prime Osborn Convention Center,

Oh God! We should be so blessed...  

OCKLAWAHA

[Jimmy]

This type of thinking will ruin our chance of economic recovery.

Hopefully Mica's constituents will remember his desire to cut jobs and services at election time.

[FayeforCure]

This type of thinking will ruin our chance of economic recovery.

Hopefully Mica's constituents will remember his desire to cut jobs and services at election time.

Not likely...........congressmen in FL are congressmen for life. Mica has been in office since 1992........two decades!!

Only death or sex scandal can remove these folks from office

THAT is why they don't give a crap about what constituents think!!

[thelakelander]

Hmmm....there goes to hoped dollars for Jaxport highway expansion needs.  So I guess we'll need to pony up more money to get Hajin and that Zion property super port off the ground?

[duvaldude08]

And was there even funding for the transportation center in the first place?

[brainstormer]

^All the more reason to scrap JTA's current $180 million plan and go for a cheaper more condensed alternative that restores the Prime Osborn to a transportation depot once more.

[duvaldude08]

But did we ever have funding in the first place was my question. If we did, it would not have taken so long to get it moving. OCK, can you chime in on this? I thought funding was our issue from the beginning?

[thelakelander]

^No, we never had full funding for the JRTC and probably never will.  All the more reason to go with a cheaper compact redesign.  The drop in costs may actually be significant enough to get this thing off the drawing board.

[duvaldude08]

^No, we never had full funding for the JRTC and probably never will.  All the more reason to go with a cheaper compact redesign.  The drop in costs may actually be significant enough to get this thing off the drawing board.

Thanks TheLakeLander.

[urbanlibertarian]

What would it cost to close Prime Osborne CC and move Amtrak and Greyhound to that space?  Would it be cheap enough to pay for locally?  Federal and state money isn't free.  We're all federal and state taxpayers.

[duvaldude08]

What would it cost to close Prime Osborne CC and move Amtrak and Greyhound to that space?  Would it be cheap enough to pay for locally?  Federal and state money isn't free.  We're all federal and state taxpayers.

If Im not mistaken, Greyhound is absorbing the majority of the cost associated with their move (or something like that.) I was thinking the same thing. Put amtrack and greyhound in one building. That alone would probably be more effective than the sprawled out crap we got going on now.

[Dog Walker]

We were driving down the section of Park St. in Brooklyn earlier today and talking about how that run-down area would be vibrant again if the Jacksonville Terminal was a transportation hub again.

[thelakelander]

Imagine Brooklyn with a streetcar line connecting it with Riverside, the JRTC and Downtown?  It would be a pretty popular location for picking up cheap property and buildings for small scale revitalization and infill projects.  I believe neighborhoods like Brooklyn are the key to affordable housing in DT and something like a streetcar could be just enough to tip the scales in their favor.

[jandar]

Wow, what an idiot. Marietta/I10 exit relocation is badly overdue. There are wrecks there all of the time. I-295 is too close. You have to fight both traffic from I-10 going east and traffic exiting onto I-295 just to merge onto I-10 east.

I-10 west is almost as bad to exit.

[jcjohnpaint]

Yeah I really feel Brooklyn is key to tying Riverside to downtown.  This area has such an interesting urban fabric it is interesting what it could become.