Downtown Action Plan, Dec 2007

[downtownparks]

For those that may have missed it.

http://www.downtownjacksonville.org/pdf/dtaction.pdf

[thelakelander]

There is a lot of goals that all of us would like to see achieved, but the report lacks critical information that identifies funding sources for these improvements.  I fear that the majority of things mentioned in this report may not happen, when the true cost of doing them come out.

[Ocklawaha]

5. Improve Downtown Connectivity by an Enhanced Trolley System and Complementary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System

If this is their idea of ACTION, to make us look like every other Daytona Beach or Tallahassee sized town in the nation, then I don't want any action at all.

Gee martha... Lookie here at Jacksonville (Hic!)

Day gots buses what looks somptin like old time Trolley Cars... day calls a TROLLEY

and

Day gots buses what hides dem wheels an runs on pavement tracks so's da dummies will think dare TROLLEYS

Gosh Darned Progressive!

Damn, where's my bottle of Rebel Yell?

Ocklawaha

[thelakelander]

5. Improve Downtown Connectivity by an Enhanced Trolley System and Complementary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System

I think this just comes from the focus only being on downtown and assuming that JTA's BRT plans are a given.   In an ideal world, I'm sure no one would object to BRT and buses shaped like trolleys being replaced with streetcars.

We're the ones who will have to fight to overcome the foolishness currently laid out on the table, in regards to transit planning.

[Noone]

Wanted to bump this.