News4Jax DNA of Transit Planning in Jacksonville

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News4Jax  DNA of Transit Planning in Jacksonville



The following article, published in the Winter of 1967, describes the planning and opinions of Alan W. Voorhees report on Transportation.  Voorhees plans were adopted by the city consequently, and this article gives insight into the DNA of transit planning for the past 50 years.

Sometimes keen, sometimes alarmingly thickheaded, the report was nonetheless the cornerstone of all our policy since then.

Join us as we parse this plan, its successes and failures, what parts we would have changed and kept, and how to go forward now.

These essays were commissioned by Eve Heaney, the brilliant and surprising female Editor of Jacksonville Magazine, which was, (and still is) the publication of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2012-jul-news4jax-dna-of-transit-planning-in-jacksonville