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(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa111/Ocklawaha/CRITICAL%20Special%20Effects%20Images/WEREWOLFFACE.gif)  BRT North Corridor Public Hearing/Notice of Availability

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) is conducting an Environmental Assessment for the BRT North Corridor project. This project will provide near-term improvements in transit service for the North Corridor beginning downtown at Broad and State streets, along Boulevard Street to the Gateway Shopping Center, along Golfair Boulevard and Norwood Avenue, and continue along Lem Turner Road to Armsdale Road near 1-295.

When/Where
Tuesday, February 15
4:30â€"7 p.m. (Formal Presentation at 6 p.m.)
Gateway Mall indoor stage (near JTA's Gateway Transit Hub)
5258 Norwood Ave., Jacksonville, FL 32208

Purpose
The purpose of the public hearing is to share project information and seek comments in a formal setting for the proposed North Corridor BRT Environmental Assessment. The Federal Transit Administration Region IV office has authorized the Notice of Availability of the North Corridor BRT Environmental Assessment for public review and comment. All interested parties are invited to review and comment on the Environmental Assessment.

Meeting Format
The meeting will be an open house where citizens can review information and maps and provide input. Members of the public are encouraged to attend the meetings and to discuss the study and ask questions of staff. A copy of the Environmental Assessment is available for review on JTA's Future Plans website and at the locations below:

Jacksonville Public Library
Northwest Branch
1755 Edgewood Ave. W.
Jacksonville, FL 32208

Tax Collector's Office
Gateway Shopping Center
910 W. 44th St.
Jacksonville, FL 32208

JTA Administration Building
100 N. Myrtle Ave.
Jacksonville, FL 32204

Anyone requiring special accommodations should contact Winova Hart-Mayer at (904) 630-3185 or e-mail whart@jtafla.com no later than Monday, February 7, 2011. Public participation is solicited without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability or familial status.

Posted on 1/13/2011 2:27:00 PM
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We have an article scheduled to run on this later this week.  The route is the same through Brentwood but doesn't stop in it this time.  That sucks because any BRT infrastructure related project or streetscape would really be beneficial to improving the Pearl Street commercial corridor instead of Broad.

yes...and JTA just put out an RFP for engineering/design of the north route

That's why we need EVERY man, woman and child that cares about these neighborhoods to be present and ANGRY. Let the ones at JTA and FDOT know that can be a REALLY ANGRY CITY or they can start listening to the residents, the choice is theirs.

SOS, SPAR, as well as NORTH SPRINGFIELD and BRENTWOOD should all have an army present. These things are billed as a "informal public meeting to discuss a plan," but what they have become under these agencies is a meeting where the these all powerful "authorities," simply play the roll of:  an intelligent victor who will, whenever possible, present his demands to the vanquished in installments." (Mein kampf)  They then go right ahead with whatever hair brained scheme they decided upon behind closed doors in some dimly lit room. It had to be a dimly lit room because so little light is ever reflected in their failed plans.

The way this is planned, Springfield is going to look like a classic case of the baby dying and the afterbirth living.

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Ock, what path would you select for BRT to connect DT with Walmart on Lem Turner Road?

wonder if angry folks will show up to this meeting?

I'll be there by 6.

Quote from: thelakelander on February 08, 2011, 11:56:00 PM
Ock, what path would you select for BRT to connect DT with Walmart on Lem Turner Road?

The path it takes is fine (L8), but the problem is you have 3 duplicate busses from gateway to Edgewood, (L8, L7, N6).  After leaving Gateway, the L8 cuts through brentwood, the N6 goes down 44th (I don't know where after) and the L7 picks up 95 at golfair to 8th st.  Then you basically have another duplicate line of L7 & L8 from Shands to Rosa Park.