Why Jacksonville Should Immediately Invest In Rail

[mtraininjax]

Keep fighting the tide is turning.

Lake - You are the blind leading the blind. You can fight the good fight behind the counter, but at some point you have to get out in FRONT of the counter and make a difference. Nice to hang out here and listen to the rhetoric, but if you want real change, YOU will need to lead it. No one can fight this fight for YOU.

[thelakelander]

How do you know I'm not taking a role in leading it?  If you knew me and what I have been involved in outside of this forum, you might think otherwise. 

[JeffreyS]

MTJ are you running for school board? If not does that mean you are not for change in education.

[Ocklawaha]

Keep fighting the tide is turning.

Lake - You are the blind leading the blind. You can fight the good fight behind the counter, but at some point you have to get out in FRONT of the counter and make a difference. Nice to hang out here and listen to the rhetoric, but if you want real change, YOU will need to lead it. No one can fight this fight for YOU.

Lake, you hit the nail on the head buddy. I laughed my butt off when I read this post, I was thinking the exact same thing. Since we know many of the professionals on these boards, what would you guess we have in the way of ACTIVE or ACTIVIST: either full time, part time or retired Transportation Planners, or decision makers, management etc? Including ourselves, I can think of maybe 20... 

We might have been the blind leading the blind in the recent past, but we are just LEADING the whole mass today, and they are starting to come around.

NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER!


OCKLAWAHA

[JeffreyS]

I thought we at MJ.com were planning on vetting the candidates and deciding who we would let win.

[JeffreyS]

As soon as we take one of the pretenders down we won't even need to advertise.

[Coolyfett]

If Washington can change overnight, so can Jacksonville with a mayoral race on the horizon.  My advice to you is to just do your job by continuing to hit them over the head with why they are wrong.  You'll find that if you don't get discouraged and continue the discussion, ignorance can be ripped to shreads.

[Coolyfett]

No doubt, but if we don't stand up to the many many things in the way, nothing will ever change.

Its very educating before I moved from Jax I had no clue why Jax moved so slow, now that the turtles are actually speaking out Im starting to see now.  People are selfish and ONLY live for the present. People only think about pleasing themselves over understanding that in time population grow and it is good to be ready for that growth.

[dlupercio]

Can i just say i am glad you wrote this. If you need help getting the voice for a plan like this stuck into the brains of the people who run this city i am here 100%

[CS Foltz]

Maybe we are looking in the wrong direction! It goes with out saying that the coming Mayoral race is going to be interesting to say the very least! Rail has shown to be a proven enticement for business and homeowners or apartments or condo's.......the mix is whatever it ends up! But the common thread throughout appears to me, IMHO, a mass transit system that caters to moving people from point A to point B and so on! Bus is not cost effiecient by itself which maybe why large cities have a mix and road! Some even include watercraft or ferry's in the intermodal mix and well it should! Right now...........Jacksonville has nothing but roads and a halfbutted bus system.......oh don't forget the Skyway, half used half breed of automation! That is only a pitifull slice of what it was planned out to be and unless it is extended, we will continue to subsidize something that should be able to stand on its own! The time has come to change the mindset of JTA and City Hall which is acres and acres of Gate supplied concrete and thats it! Time to come up to the 20th Century full time and with room to expand!