No Cars For JTA Employees Until Mass Transit Works.

[stephendare]

Everyone who thinks that the JTA employees should be forced to give up their personal transportation for a full year (or until the gatdamn system starts working, which would undoubtedly happen first)  Signify by Posting Aye!

Cut and paste the following:

Aye!  I think that All JTA employees should be required to use only public transportation (except in cases of provable emergency) for the period of one year or until the system become useful to the majority of people residing in Duval County.  I do not want to see a single JTA employee driving themselves anywhere until at least August of 2010

Signed,
Stephen Dare

[Tripoli1711]

I don't know about all employees, but those who can shape policy/direction should certainly have to.  If I ran JTA I would make this a policy for all upper level folks.  One week per month you must use only JTA to get to work, and keep a log of your experiences.
 

[Tripoli1711]

Oh yeah..


Aye!  I think that All JTA employees should be required to use only public transportation (except in cases of provable emergency) for the period of one year or until the system become useful to the majority of people residing in Duval County.  I do not want to see a single JTA employee driving themselves anywhere until at least August of 2010.

[Lunican]

CT1 from downtown to Springfield averages 2.1 mph. Yeah, they should definitely try that out.

[jbroadglide]

After just one week of poor service, slow trains and totally crappy customer service from JTA I am off the Skyway. Our office just moved downtown and I live in Riverside. So I thought I would park at the Convention Center and ride the Skyway to Hemming. Nice short little trip. Except last Friday we all stood waiting at Central Station for 45 minutes with no announcements as to what was happening. Forget pressing the intercom button. No one answers. Today I was 20 minutes late for work because I waited 25 minutes again at Central station to go 4 lousy blocks to Hemming. When you call JTA you get some totally non emotional person who sounds like she wishes she were anyplace else but there. So JTA you got my money for 2 weeks. I'l pay an extra 5 bucks a month and park at a garage 3 blocks from the ofice and walk. And they wonder why ridership has dropped off. Look at the parking lots near the Convention Center station. Almost totally empty.

[tufsu1]

what about the JTA folks who are responsible for roads....can they still drive cars?

[Dog Walker]

what about the JTA folks who are responsible for roads....can they still drive cars?

Only if they are required to drive over every improperly constructed manhole on their route twice.  Only Jacksonville can make its own potholes.

[Joe]

But JTA isn't a public transit agency. JTA is a highway building agency that also happens to manage a bus system and monorail in their spare time.

Therein lies the real issue.

[fsujax]

It's my understanding that all JTA employees have to ride the system several times a year and report on it. Also, I know of many people who work there that do ride the bus, the trolley's and the Skyway on a daily basis.

[shan1218]

AYE!

A few times a year clearly isn't even close to enough for these fools. I'm also pretty sure we could use the gas/insurance money for something a bit more productive for the city.

[tufsu1]

bottom line folks...ths is happening all over the country....almost every transit agency had to cut back last year with rising gas prices...just when people wanted to take public transit the mosty.

JTA needs more money....as I've said before, $1 per trip is way too cheap....but the catch-22 is that most of their customers are transit-dependent and on limited incomes.

[Steve]

A few times a year doesn't cut it.  I would say anyone with direct transit involvement (I would exempt the secretarys and such, who have no real power to make changes).  However, I would require anyone who actually has say over the direction of the transit system (existing service or planning) to actually use it for commuting.

[Lunican]

bottom line folks...ths is happening all over the country....almost every transit agency had to cut back last year with rising gas prices...just when people wanted to take public transit the mosty.

This really isn't about cut backs though. The bus routes are ridiculous. A simple 1.5 mile ride from downtown to Springfield takes 40 minutes.

[tufsu1]

I agree that JTA should go through a complete system re-design of their local bus routes.

[fsujax]

yeah. redesign the system. Build streetcars and a regional rail system. Let's stop being so dependent on the bus.