Several have asked how I would plug in Skyways, Streetcars Commuter Rail and Trolley Buses in downtown... WELL, here is some idea. This is just a concept, many routes would have to be shuffled a bit to make it fit. The KEY:
(http://blog.travelpost.com/wp-content/new_orleans_streetcar.jpg)
Purple Lines: Streetcars ON TRACK!
(http://z.about.com/d/goflorida/1/0/6/K/jax_skyway2.JPG)
Blue Lines: Skyway FINISHED
(http://www.trolleycoalition.org/photos/seattle.jpg)
Light Greens and Teals: 3 Trolley Bus Routes as CBD shuttles, LOOK JTA it's a Gillig Bus!
(http://www.trainnet.org/Libraries/Lib003/IC3_3.JPG)
Black: Commuter Rail
(http://www.metrodcliving.com/urbantrekker/images/anacostiametrostation.jpg)(http://jaxhistory.com/annie-lytle-school3.jpg)
RED SQUARES: Mini Transit Centers, including Rosa Parks, Randolph, San Marco, Kings, Annie Lytle, TC
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa111/Ocklawaha/JaxCBDplanWStations.png)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa111/Ocklawaha/All%20Map%20Images/JaxCBDplanWStations.png)
So where is the BRT? The regular Bus Routes? They are feeding in from their respective routes into the Transit Centers. Free electric shuttle buses, Skyway and a downtown streetcar do the rest.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa111/Ocklawaha/Heritagestreetcarpossibilitysconcep.jpg)
A living DOWNTOWN! Gee JTA, what a concept
Go ahead, JTA, Tell me why this wouldn't work? Tell me why I could get this done for a mere fraction of your BRT freeway system. ALL OF IT! Go ahead, I really want to hear...Perhaps the fixation with BRT is a really bad infestation of that political Political Transit ailment called "The Baby Elephant Walk," Daddy leads, and Mommy, Aunts, Uncles, and Babies all follow. Only with BRT, it's done at a faster pace...
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Ocklawaha
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I hearby pronounce you "King of Transportation". No, get out there and build this thing Ock!