Firehouse Subs closing

[Steve]

WTF? Hey, don't y'all realize that parking meters are already installed? They require almost no investment? They work like a magic gum ball machine, a few hundred dollars invested returns .25 cents per 1/2 hour forever, or at least until you drive all the customers away. Why with parking meters making up to $12.00 a day, it's an immediate income for all of Jacksonville to spend and enjoy. Contrast that with new development that would come from free parking. We might see $100's of millions of dollars in new development, but the key word is "might". So on the one hand we keep the meters and have REAL revenue today, on the other we trash the meters with the chance that someone will spend the big bucks. Just like us, take the quarter so we don't deal with the millions... besides, who in Jacksonville can count that high? Oh the humanity!

Ocklawaha

Personally, I'd have a really hard time believeing that a single parking meter makes more than about 3.00 per day tops.

[Lunican]

Parking meter revenue is a good place to steal money from. There is no proof of how much money they collected, so report half and keep the rest.

[gatorback]

How many are broken  victimizing the weak with parking tickets.  My meter was broken and I got a ticket.  If I didn't fight it I would have had to pay. 

[Ocklawaha]

Sucks to be you I guess, hell, someone has to support the Police Welfare Program. You know, if we could engineer a gum ball machine on top of each meter we could double the citys revenue overnight! A simple device to plug the door, would assure the gum balls were not despensed. This way we only have to buy the gum balls once and we can have broken machines that just make pure income all day long.

Hey, let's be the first City to introduce night time meters too! We might stretch that $12 bucks into $15 or $20! Big money Jacksonville, big money. With that sort of revenue dedicated to our Mass Transit and Parking problems we could buy another new Gillig BRT "look" bus by 2027. Gotta love it Jacksonville.  

Ocklawaha

[gatorback]

Yes.  That we should also install the meters on the water at the river.  Hey Jacksonville, why not ticket the cars waiting on the mainstreet bridge...HUGE revenue stream for retirement fund.

[ChriswUfGator]

and by the way Mr. Dare...I don't drink the DVI kool-aid.....you're the one who use the 80k number they publish.....my info. is based on data from the Census and InfoUSA employment data....San Marco is nowhere close to downtown in total employment

and just to follow up on my previous post.....2005 employment figures for San Marco and the Southbank combined are about 11,000....the downtown core alone (Jefferson to Liberty and Beaver to the river) has over 29,000

plus Stephen...you mentioned the Dalton Agency in San Marco area....aren't they the ones moving downtown who forced Boomtown out?

[ChriswUfGator]

Wow, 29,000 people within just a few blocks on the Northbank!

[Captain Zissou]

It's a stretch, but this is a somehow related topic.

I heard a commercial for the new Freestyle coke Machine.  Apparently it has over 100 flavors that you select using a touch screen.  Grape Sprite, Fanta Zero, Cherry Vanilla Coke Zero, etc.........

Anyway, they have them at all firehouse locations now.  I plan to try one this week. 

[Jimmy]

They're cool.  I recommend a 50/50 ratio of Vanilla Coke and Orange Coke.  Reminds me of an orange creamsicle.  No joke.

[ChriswUfGator]

I ate at firehouse on 17 / NAS Jax the other day and they had that new machine, it was awesome. You can get a soda flavored however you want it, it's pretty nifty. I like vanilla coke zero, regular coke (except Mexican regular coke) is too syrupy. But sadly for Tufsu, that soda machine probably has more flavors than downtown has office workers...

[acme54321]

They're cool.  I recommend a 50/50 ratio of Vanilla Coke and Orange Coke.  Reminds me of an orange creamsicle.  No joke.

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[mtraininjax]

Pretty simple fix, add more residential space downtown northbank side. No people = no need for commercial.

[KuroiKetsunoHana]

okay, so imagine we have more residential space over her.  from whence will those new residents come?  why should they move from wherever they are?  for that matter, whose money is goïng to be used to build new residential when there are already houses goïng empty all over the city?

[ChriswUfGator]

Awe, Tufsu, you forgot the Winn-Dixie. I hear if you call 3 weeks in advance and ask nice you can get the chef's table.

[tufsu1]

did you notice that the post above wasn't from me?