City Seeks Public Input for Uses of $7.8 Million Federal Grant

[tufsu1]

I would definitely vote for taking some of that money to begin the next set of streetcar studies....$1 million should suffice....otherwise, it may be another 5 years before $ for that is found.

[fsujax]

I agree. I don't even think it would cost $1 million.

[strider]

One mil for a street car study?  We have a person on Metro Jacksonville who I believe has pretty much done 90% of such a study…just put a bust of him on one of the cars like the sailing ships of yore and I bet he’d do most of it for free!     We just saved 7 to 800 K so put it with the rest and start the street car line.

[CS Foltz]

I agree strider...but Ock in not within the power circle here in Jax so that might cause a problem....like something might get done for once!

[mtraininjax]

I think we should spend it on:
1) Studies out the gazoo, because we don't spend enough killing more trees just to learn something we already know.
2) We need more concrete, its plentiful in Florida, and we should claim more for ourselves before our sister cities in FLA do the same.
3) We need to spend it on changing all 1-way streets to 2-lane, and then fix all the street signs and light poles peeling, clean up the system. Add racing stripes when appropriate, add neon lights to all intersections, make it cool downtown, for the 5 people who are downtown nightly.

[fsujax]

^^5 people downtown nightly? apparently you haven't been Downtown on Friday night as of recent. You need to get out more. I was down there 2 weeks ago on a Friday night, the Landing was packed as well as Bay St.

[tufsu1]

I agree strider...but Ock in not within the power circle here in Jax so that might cause a problem....like something might get done for once!

It has nothing to do with being in a local power circle...the next set of studies I'm talking about are environmental studies required by state and Federal government....and believe me, they are very data intensive and require significant public involvement and agency cordination.

Plus, we'd never get any $ for construction or operations/maintenance from either source without the studies.

[CS Foltz]

We can study study study but will never get anything accomplished at the rate we are going! This is why I say the current Administration has no vision and no plan for anything. They can not see beyond their collective noses and how it directly effects them.......not us the public! Have no problem if additional studies are needed by that money was available for implementation. Granted a study,environmental wise is prudent, but these are things that should have already been done! They are not so back to square one again!

[tufsu1]

I don't disagree...it would have been great if the City had started studying streetcars 10 or more years ago....but the past is the past....we need to move on

[CS Foltz]

tufsu1 I agree........which is why I say "No vision or plan"! No Administration in the past 20 years had the forward vision to anticipate what would be needed down the road!  They should have been able to open a drawer and pull something out and just update the needed information. I have no problem with another "Study" just irritating that we have to play catchup again and pretty much start from scratch one more time!