Jacksonville Ranked 40th for Easy Commuting

[Coolyfett]

good article...I think the next group of highschools should be in the core. At least 3 or 4. Build Up...maybe 10 to 15 stories. Thats an idea for a young designer.

[mtraininjax]

Texas Transportation Institute

What, no Oregon Transportation Institute report, or what about an Indiana Transportation Institute report? Since when did we decide we wanted to listen to what Texans had to say about Floridians? Its got to be a Bush conspiracy.

[Ocklawaha]

State Rock of Florida??

Texas Transportation Institute

What, no Oregon Transportation Institute report, or what about an Indiana Transportation Institute report? Since when did we decide we wanted to listen to what Texans had to say about Floridians? Its got to be a Bush conspiracy.

I'm curious as to when you checked your brain at the door MTrain? Really? Or are you just joking?? For those wondering what this is all about, various "think tanks," institutes, and divisions of higher University College of Transportation, spend thousands of hours of lab and field time gathering data, making studies, and creating concepts to answer every conceivable mass transit problem. Some are quite political, Heritage Foundation for example, while others are in bed with certain industries, such as the National BRT Institute (at least their honest in their name) or Florida's CUTR, at the University of South Florida. For about 1/2 a century, the State of Florida, which funds CUTR and USF, as a result the studies that come out of this highway lobby stronghold have been blind to anything but endless pavement. No rail, no streetcars, no LRT, no Amtrak, no depots... trademark Official State Rock of the Sunshine State could well be the rare Asphaltic Bituminous Tarmacadam Schist aggregate. CUTR has sufficiently poisoned the minds of Florida Transportation Students and Officialdom that knowing eye's roll when a Florida speaker is a featured guest in some event, in any transit progressive states. One cringes when the audience chuckles at the speakers transparent fallacies as he or she repeats outlandish claims of herculean feats imagined to have been achieved by highway only transit.  The whole history of Florida's neglect of alternatives came home to roost recently when we were publicly mocked by the USDOT which told us flat out, "invest in rail STATEWIDE," or kiss your Federal transportation matching funds goodbye.

So YES to studies done by Texas Transportation institute, Light Rail Now, Caltrans or the City of Boston... We certainly can't trust our own "experts" to lead us in anything resembling an unbiased study involving a balance of modes. We are receiving the dividends from years of one sided stupidity, and still seeing some of these ugly plans appear as an unwelcome scar on our lands (9-B anyone?). Florida needs to clean it's DOT from top to bottom and CLOSE CUTR, and remake the USF program. Until that day, I'll go with Texas! or Oklahoma! or Indiana! or Maryland! or ...

OCKLAWAHA

[CS Foltz]

Let me suggest "University of South Central Gauducanal".......perfect place for CUTR to end up in!

[tufsu1]

Texas Transportation Institute

What, no Oregon Transportation Institute report, or what about an Indiana Transportation Institute report? Since when did we decide we wanted to listen to what Texans had to say about Floridians? Its got to be a Bush conspiracy.

there are many of these think tanks around the nation....Ock has noted CUTR at USF and UF has a lesser-known one in their Engineering School....other major transportation reserach centers are at UC-Berkely, Ga Tech, and Rutgers/NJIT

[north miami]

What we see and "study" is not what we will get:

Even more telling than "study" of current conditions would be to forecast future congestion based on future growth vested to existing highway infrastructure,yet currently unseen.

I was a member of an early 1980's Clay County SR 21/Blanding Blvd. Citizen's Advisory Committee-this during a time when much of the current development and congestion absent on Blanding- the stated purpose of the Committee was to "plan" for an alternative to what ended up happening.I am not so casual as some in outlook.

[catchall2007]

How about when four-six lanes merge into one there is bound to be a problem.

All the Jacksonville roads, no matter how many lanes, seem to merge into one.  And the bridges are not equipped for accidents.

A million cars coming our of Fleming Island..............all must move into one lane at the end in order to get up on 295.  It is the same for Blanding Blvd and every one place in town!

One fender bender can mean one-two hours of being late for work.