Urban Connectivity: Lighting Laura Street Update

[Metro Jacksonville]

Urban Connectivity: Lighting Laura Street Update



Could Laura Street become the home of an energetic urban environment similar to Denver's 16th Street Mall, Tampa's Ybor City, Cleveland's East 4th Street and Miami Beach's Lincoln Road?  Today Metro Jacksonville gives an update to the status of the Lighting Laura Street plan, as well as several projects springing up along the Northbank's premier urban corridor.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/content/view/315

[Jerome Howard]

Great job, you folks! I thought that Independent Square is the original name of that beautiful tower, even though Modis has there name on top.
I think that we need some Daktronics digital signage on some parts of Laura Street, not just the new lighting.

[Colin Williams]

I think we're on to something!

If you hear of anyone needing conent creation (video/animation) to include in their digital signage, please let me know.  It's what I do!

http://www.pensivecrow.com

[blizz01]

I wonder why there's no mention of moving the Andrew Jackson statue to the roundabout.

[obie1]

This is all good stuff. Trying to keep looking on the bright side, it is there if you look hard enough.

[Ocklawaha]

I wonder why there's no mention of moving the Andrew Jackson statue to the roundabout.

Hopefully because my Streetcars would prevent his horse from fathering another colt. It WOULD make a great streetcar station though.

OCKLAWAHA

[Charles Hunter]

I wonder why there's no mention of moving the Andrew Jackson statue to the roundabout.

Hopefully because my Streetcars would prevent his horse from fathering another colt. It WOULD make a great streetcar station though.
OCKLAWAHA

Are saying a streetcar station could be in the middle of the roundabout?  Wouldn't it be difficult (dangerous) for passengers to get into/out of the center - what with traffic constantly moving around the roundabout? 

Or am I missing something?

[Ocklawaha]

Certainly it was 99% JOKE Charles.

BUT...

Now that it's out, let's look at it:

A Round-About can be supported by some as great traffic movers and safety devices. I side with the other group that also has numbers to show them as pedestrian killers. At a 4 way (or 5-Points) no one in their right mind will blow through the intersection, lights or no lights. But on round-abouts, I note that people look LEFT and turn right into the flow - MERGING rather then stopping. Any human or bike on those corners is in grave danger.

Now round-abouts are pretty, and make nice civic TV scenes (see last nights game). So how to fix it? In some locations such as the proposed round-about in St. Nicholas (which replaces the Beach Flyover) the round-about COULD be raised about 6' above normal ground level. This would allow a system of pedestrian and bike underpasses that would keep the road PEOPLE FREE and still allow for a feature in the center.

If Jackson is in the middle of the round about downtown, 1,000's of people (myself included) are going in there for a photo. So we MUST have a cross walk matrix. My thoughts on a Streetcar stop is simplistic. All autos stop at all 4 entrys for streetcars and cross walk. If car headways are as close as every 5 minutes that's still a long time between cross walk lights, so a cycle or demand button would have to be installed.

BTW, those buttons need to be audiable. In Colombia not only do they have lights, but a sweet voice tells you "You may pass to the right, your time is 10-9-8- etc... Then be careful, then danger - do not walk.

OCKLAWAHA

[ricker]

great to see this all finally begin to unfold!
maybe oneday we will live in the bold new city of the south.. .
$30million spent on Riverside Ave (new Forest St interchange) which truthfully has improved Avondale thru-traffic, even at Park, Blanding and 17N, and we're only now finally seeing this vital artery between glorious Springfield and our core.
finally.

Diverse, consitently blended sounds BOLD.
integrated. unified.

black.and white. and all shades of everyone in between.
From Avondale to Everywhere.
Why not? our history is rich and sadly not uniquely buried when it should be advertised, promoted and embraced.

Do we know how many languages are spoken and in what concentrations?


Thank you MJ for existing!