Extending the Skyway and Bike Share in Jax's Future?

[Coolyfett]

Stop running all the buses downtown, extend down to sport complex via Bay Street, extend to 8th Street n 5 Points, charge a dollar to enter Skyway gate/system.....then let it be. Nothing has chaged on it since 2000. Hemming Plaza and San Marco are the only good stations with things near them. Jefferson Station has nothing.

Aside from One Spark, I don't know that I've ever seen Convention Station or Jefferson Station operating... Do those lines ever run? I 100% agree though we need to be aggressive in order to get the TIGER grant. Extending to the Stadium with 1 or 2 stops along the way and over to 5 Points, with stops at the fresh market and arts market, would be huge additions that would massively increase ridership. I would love to be able to ride from Riverplace Station to the bars on Bay Street, the Fresh Market and into riverside on the weekends....

Downtown Jacksonville has a lot of empty lots, the lots by Jefferson Station and Convention Center Station need something there, but it seems those lots are never destined for development.

[ProjectMaximus]

Aside from One Spark, I don't know that I've ever seen Convention Station or Jefferson Station operating... Do those lines ever run?

I've parked and taken the skyway to art walk before.

While the routes and station placement don't seem to make a lot of sense today, they were planned in anticipation and support of massive redevelopment in the areas surrounding those two stations. Their role as only park-n-ride servers is a residual of the failure of the redevelopment effort (subject of many other past threads).

Of course, COJ or JTA has to be willing to sell the land if it's going to be developed.

[exnewsman]

Aside from One Spark, I don't know that I've ever seen Convention Station or Jefferson Station operating... Do those lines ever run? I 100% agree though we need to be aggressive in order to get the TIGER grant. Extending to the Stadium with 1 or 2 stops along the way and over to 5 Points, with stops at the fresh market and arts market, would be huge additions that would massively increase ridership. I would love to be able to ride from Riverplace Station to the bars on Bay Street, the Fresh Market and into riverside on the weekends....

All of the Skyway stations and routes including Convention Center and Jefferson operate weekdays from 6am to 9pm at 6 min headways. While the routes and station placement don't seem to make a lot of sense today, they were planned in anticipation and support of massive redevelopment in the areas surrounding those two stations. Their role as only park-n-ride servers is a residual of the failure of the redevelopment effort (subject of many other past threads).

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