JTA Ridership Figures

[CS Foltz]

One way.............buy a yearly parking pass, one price color coded to specific area's or one price good for anywhere, prices flat feed'd! You want to drive.............no displayed pass, ticket!

[uptowngirl]

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I think the problem with transit is its timidity, to be honest.  It has so many natural advantages over car ownership that if it was in any way well planned and effective people would choose it over driving.

I think some would choose transit over driving but others wouldn't.  I'm pretty sure in one of the Springfield threads mtrain basically said there was no way he was giving up his auto.  You would choose transit- I probably would too.  I think the important thing is to give people mobility options.  As it stands now in Jax, if you don't have a car it can be very difficult to get around.  That's not a good thing.

This is true, and even those of us who have used public transportation (in different cities of course) and would be open to using it here won't because:

1-the routes are dreadful
2-the feeling of saftey is missing from most routes
3-most bus stops are just stupid, an old tired and in some cases splintered wooden bench
4-outside of the metro area you still need to hike it to wherever it is you are usually trying to get to.

Our bus system is not set up very, in fact sometimes I wonder where the heck they are trying to move from and to???

[mtraininjax]

One way.............buy a yearly parking pass, one price color coded to specific area's or one price good for anywhere, prices flat feed'd! You want to drive.............no displayed pass, ticket!

Or age quickly by laying out in the sun to pass yourself off as over 65 and get a free bus pass.