When Downtown's Policies Went to the Southside

[lindab]

This is hilarious but sadly true. You forgot to add: build colossal  buildings to span several streets thus creating a cluster of dead end streets. Combine it with aforementioned one-way streets for Moto-X, Freestyle and Road Racing games.

My other personal favorite - spray paint cryptic marks on the sidewalks, streets, light posts to indicate future repairs and let it become street art for the next five to ten years.

[JaxNative68]

A better questions to ask would be:
Is there a way to coordinate services so everyone in Jacksonville has a safe place to stay? OR
Is there a way to create more affordible housing throughout Duval County so people and families can move out of shelters into a home?

+1

plus simply providing a damn shower and a bathroom during daytime hours would be um....i dunno...obvious.

why should the city provide a shower and a bathroom during the daytime hours when they already take their morning baths in the sink of the ground floor restroom in my office building?  Its one less expense for the city.  It got so bad we had to have locks installed on the core restroom doors.  Nothing say class A office space like a naked homeless man washing his balls in the women's restroom sink.

[tufsu1]

no one is parking there because there is nowhere to go, not because of the stupid parking meter.  

actually street parking in downtown Jax. is pretty heavily used....far more so than other big cities in FL....even on weeknights, parking on Forsyth, Adams, Bay, Hogan, etc. is well utilized.

[Lunican]

actually street parking in downtown Jax. is pretty heavily used....far more so than other big cities in FL....even on weeknights, parking on Forsyth, Adams, Bay, Hogan, etc. is well utilized.

[fsujax]

^^I know those spaces are full on Sunday mornings! haha

[GideonGlib]

This is great, sad, but great.

[tufsu1]

actually street parking in downtown Jax. is pretty heavily used....far more so than other big cities in FL....even on weeknights, parking on Forsyth, Adams, Bay, Hogan, etc. is well utilized.

is this one of the streets I mentioned?

[Lunican]

Car after car is literally road-blocked from coming downtown. During this exercise in mass evacuation, the few roads that remain open lead directly to the interstate. Residents and patrons alike are ushered away, whether they like it or not.

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2007-feb-large-venues-and-small-business-why-government-makes-it-impossible-to-coexist

[Doctor_K]

I've always wondered why they were so adamant to herd everyone out of downtown after a game or event...

[Bewler]

This is hilarious but sadly true. You forgot to add: build colossal  buildings to span several streets thus creating a cluster of dead end streets. Combine it with aforementioned one-way streets for Moto-X, Freestyle and Road Racing games.

My other personal favorite - spray paint cryptic marks on the sidewalks, streets, light posts to indicate future repairs and let it become street art for the next five to ten years.

Don't forget to construct a multimillion dollar skyway rail in the SJTC that takes you to the following locations, the lake across the street, the Target loading dock, and the woods near 9A.

[Ocklawaha]

This is hilarious but sadly true. You forgot to add: build colossal  buildings to span several streets thus creating a cluster of dead end streets. Combine it with aforementioned one-way streets for Moto-X, Freestyle and Road Racing games.

My other personal favorite - spray paint cryptic marks on the sidewalks, streets, light posts to indicate future repairs and let it become street art for the next five to ten years.

Don't forget to construct a multimillion dollar skyway rail in the SJTC that takes you to the following locations, the lake across the street, the Target loading dock, and the woods near 9A.

As you can see, we did that on the previous page:

No sweat, the new Convention Center converted from an 1912 vintage logging railroad terminal will be built in Sawmill Slough. It will host at least one Monster Truck, Gun, Aluminum Boat show, or Survivalist show per month.

The Town Center will spend $200,000,000 Million Dollars to connect itself to the outer edge of the Publix Parking Lot, with a high tech Skyway Express.  It is predicted the Skyway Express will carry 250,000,000 Million riders per year, making it the most advanced and busiest transit system in the world. Depending on the success of the starter line consideration will be given to future expansion to Bermuda.  JTA spokesman Mike Milner said, "People hate rail, so we built this 19 tire, 4 mile express, at a 500% higher cost, to show the world that rail is at last dead!"


OCKLAWAHA

Your idea for stations are really good though, and as we make the change from DPM to Monorail, we should add at least one or two of these stellar destinations!

OCKLAWAHA

[finehoe]

You guys are a trip.

We have to laugh, because banging your head against the wall starts to hurt after a while.

[Bill Ectric]

I love the one about "spray paint cryptic marks on the sidewalks, streets, light posts to indicate future repairs and let it become street art for the next five to ten years." This is so what really happens!

[Ocklawaha]

Steven? Did the City and Federales do 12 or 14 studies to build that Town Center Skyway North and South, through the length of the middle of the place?

Sure is a good thing JTA stepped in and built it East and West so it can someday be expanded to reach destinations in the future.

OCKLAWAHA

[lindab]

Studies? Studies? They forgot to advertise them to the public and so no comments were ever received and they concluded the public did not care - As usual.