http://residentnews.net/2013/03/06/concerned-condo-residents-speak-brt/
“Increased stops will make Riverplace less quiet,†said Peninsula residents Kevin and Ellen Smith. “We’ll have noise for 18 hours a day with two bus stops proposed at the Peninsula.†The Smiths have been residents at the Peninsula for two-and-a-half years, and enjoy being able to walk to MOSH, to Friendship Fountain Park, the Riverwalk or take the Water Taxi. They were attending the community meeting because “If you don’t speak up, you can’t effect change,†said Kevin."
Give me a brake people. You moved to the urban core not a retirement village. You will not here much in those high rises. Probably the same folks that want conerts shut down at metro park. More backward thinking in jax.
Quote from: jaxlore on March 08, 2013, 01:33:02 PM
http://residentnews.net/2013/03/06/concerned-condo-residents-speak-brt/
“Increased stops will make Riverplace less quiet,†said Peninsula residents Kevin and Ellen Smith. “We’ll have noise for 18 hours a day with two bus stops proposed at the Peninsula.†The Smiths have been residents at the Peninsula for two-and-a-half years, and enjoy being able to walk to MOSH, to Friendship Fountain Park, the Riverwalk or take the Water Taxi. They were attending the community meeting because “If you don’t speak up, you can’t effect change,†said Kevin."
Give me a brake people. You moved to the urban core not a retirement village. You will not here much in those high rises. Probably the same folks that want conerts shut down at metro park. More backward thinking in jax.
Break
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Well they do already have a monorail so perhaps not the best place to put BRT. I agree their less quiet concerns are silly.
We should welcome any opposition to the BRT project. It duplicates the skyway and there are no real bike/pedestrian improvements. And if it is the "shut down Met park" crowd that's behind it, then let them have this one. I do not want to see BRT in this area.
Just as the two-and-a-half hour meeting was winding up, the heretofore unannounced or introduced new CEO of the JTA, Nat Ford, came forward. Ford, hired in October 2012, was in a similar position in San Francisco, where the term “sharrows†was coined under his tenure there. He expressed surprised that the Southbank BRT/MAX issue needed 100 or more residents to be addressed. “We went through the same type of project in San Francisco, working closely with the residents, businesses and bicycling community,†he said. “It only took one person to object and we addressed it.â€
Ford was also concerned about the perception of lack of communication about the project. “There’s never enough outreach on projects like this,†he stated. “We’ll take all comments seriously, but we’re not going to shut the project down. That’s not the answer. We need to move a workforce around rapidly, including those like the people who work at this hotel [the Wyndham].â€
Nat Ford lives in those same condos so you bet your bottom dollar he will try hard to come with something. The whole BRT project is at least 10 years late and should be scrapped.
Quote from: urbaknight on March 08, 2013, 02:12:59 PM
We should welcome any opposition to the BRT project. It duplicates the skyway and there are no real bike/pedestrian improvements. And if it is the "shut down Met park" crowd that's behind it, then let them have this one. I do not want to see BRT in this area.
I disagree