Mass Transit 30 Years Later: Special Report

[thelakelander]

There is a physical plan and its now the city's plan.  Many of the participants at Metro Jacksonville stopped being vocal and have worked hard behind the scenes for the last couple of years to get a variety of fixed transit routes included in the adpoted COJ Visioning Plans, JTA Transit Plans, North Florida TPO's 2035 LRTP and COJ's 2030 Mobility Plan.  Now, two initial projects (Riverside Streetcar, North commuter rail) have a funding mechanism to help get them built in the next 5-10 years in the form of the Mobility Fee.  I'll post a map of the entire system later today.

[thelakelander]

Here is a link to the map, I mentioned I'd post:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,13053.msg241898/topicseen.html#new

[exnewsman]

I suppose I didn't mean any city plans, I meant, somebody apart of the Metro Jacksonville crew, staff or forum members with the know how, who could present the city with something? Something to hand them, to say, "THIS is how it could work", something physical instead of vocal.

We could show them the 1981 article and point out that the prediction was correct. And persuade them to remove all JTA planners and hire fresh openminded people to do what these others couldn't. And while we're at, fire all of JTA management and replace them with forward thinkers.

They say JTA is run by black people, but if you ask me, they're running it like rednecks would.

Well JTA management, I hope that comment will motivate you to change your ways. I know the history between blacks and rednecks; And making this comparison boils your blood. Do something about it, become more urban oriented. That is, unless you take orders from rednecks just to hold on to your jobs.

This is not ment to be a racist post, I'm just trying to motivate JTA management to think like their urban counterparts in "real cities".

You can SAY that it was not meant to be racist - but it WAS racist. Not cool.

[Ocklawaha]

Why would a black, educated, mass transit director, plan the system any different then a redneck, educated, mass transit director? Less pickup trucks?

[deathstar]

@lake
That's awesome, I knew there was something out there, thanks!

[urbaknight]

Opps, sorry, I was just trying to challenge directors of JTA to be different from many of our leaders, city ans state.