Skyway Riverside expansion

[JayBird]

If you take a look at this website (I believe from Ock?) http://lightrailjacksonville.webs.com/futuretransitinjax.htm it actually proposes a route that parallels Riverside to Forest, then works over to Roselle and turns north to terminate at Annie Lytle. Just an idea, however I tend to like it.  Not only does it reuse a historical building nicely, but it also allows for further infill in a constantly growing area (Riverside).




This terminal would be about 1/2-mile walk to RAM, but if streetcar ran down Riverside that would provide closer access.

[hound dog]

Beautiful concept.  And the Atlantic Blvd/San MarcoSkyway extension is on the same site.  This would need a simililar investment as the Brooklyn extention, and would dovetail with East San Marco, the St. Joe's/Regency mixed use development planned a block away from the proposed station. 

Maybe federal $$$ are available for upgrades linked to the new I-95/Atlantic Blvd interchage?

And San Marco would be a great gateway station for light rail from St. Augustine, or FEC's All Aboard Florida passenger rail service.

[coredumped]

Yeah, that'd be pretty good. Should increase ridership enough where a lot of those people in our little "Financial District" there might be able to take it downtown for lunch.

[Ocklawaha]

Yes it was my concept. I liked the idea that JTA could lease spaces to cafes, studios and boutiques at Annie. As for access, a little harder to draw, was a 'Grande Paseo' or walk from the front door, over the little pond, and matching the diagonal sidewalk straight into 5-Points.  There is a plan (as if JTA paid any attention to the idea) for both a bus drive through under the Skyway in back, as well as a streetcar possibility ironically very close to the original line which is now under I-10. Lastly the original Skyway plan had it running down Riverside (the segment from Forest southward now pretty solidly in the streetcar plan) with a turn on Roselle. Had they built it the Skyway would have actually had a terminal west of I-10 a couple of blocks into the neighborhood beyond the FDOT building. 

The concept had another intention besides all of the positives of mass transit. JTA would be hailed as a local 'HERO AGENCY' for saving and repurposing the old school. Support would have skyrocketed and the PR would easily been worth several million dollars.

Don't dispare, there is another somewhat similar plan and a story in the pipeline that would achieve like laurels for JTA.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Very nice concept there.

[JayBird]

Don't dispare, there is another somewhat similar plan and a story in the pipeline that would achieve like laurels for JTA.

Yes!!!