SkyWay should extend to the sports district

[Timkin]

I will be the first to admit I never have been on the Skyway, but if it is anything like Disney's Monorail (which I always enjoyed being on)  It cannot be that bad.  Your idea CS , somewhat represents what Disney has done (successfully) from day one.  I would not know the condition of the current cars in place, but if they are in reasonable shape , either add on to them and wear them out , or place them in the area LEAST USED...being as they are older.

I have heard the expression all of my life. (Shit or get off the pot)  I have to agree!    To do away with a working system now first off , to me would cost ALOT of money to dismantle, second  EVEN MORE money in the future when it is decided (and I think it is certain to ) that it should be reconstructed. On this basis alone, I say enhance.  Brooklyn first, San Marco second ,because neither would take great extension of to complete.  The Stadium 3rd ( which I really believe would pay off!) and other extensions as needed.

To do nothing at all with it but leave it like it is, to me is a dead end.  How is it that other cities successfully have rail systems that are successful, but Jacksonville cannot maintain or make profitable , a 30 year old transportation mode?  Someone please explain to me .   The only thing I can come up with is that it goes nowhere significant.  Any other reasons?

[JeffreyS]

They can not make JTB profitable either but it sure is going to get some funding.  CS I like your ideas on the parking.

[Ocklawaha]

Neither JTB, Skyway or the Fire Department are going to be "profitable"... probably forever.  So success must be measured in other ways, such as employee hours saved at $ XX per hour?  Clustered schedules allow the company to qualify for car pool vans, and free parking in bulk, from the City, in such a case employees use the Mandarin, Ponte Vedra, WGV-NOCATEE garages, ride the van's to the nearest transit station and move via Skyway to their final destination (BENEFIT? No employee parks downtown, no employee deals with rush hour traffic, FREEway and Boulevard lanes freed up during shift change hours, carbon credits, GREEN, measurably less air, water and soil pollution, less fuel usage, MPG is recalculated as PASSENGER MILES-PER-GALLON or PMPG, trip time slashed, employee can use WIFI to productive use on city transit and transit stops... Etc...

We didn't believe they were anything more then rent-a-cops until they impounded our car and arrested Bubba!





...and yup! Even in COLOMBIA, but not in JAX!

Lastly transit vehicles and stations would no longer collect a fare, vendors at the Skyway interchange stations would sell day-month-week-year passes. A small dedicated TRANSIT POLICE FORCE under JSO and FDLE National Railroad Police/CSX/FEC/NS would perform roving fare checks on all transit modes and vehicles, appearing and disappearing to prevent prediction of their location or hours of operation. STIFF FINES would be imposed on anyone convicted of TRANSIT FREELOADING.

Passenger counting and card reading would be done through a TOUCH LESS OCR device, the old machines would be sold to a carnival surplus warehouse store.  

Give me the keys to the door Mr. Blaylock, and we'll turn the agency upside down.

OCKLAWAHA

[Timkin]

Ock.... I have a question...and this is serious. 

WHY are you not heading JTA    You posess unparalleled knowledge of rail systems . Why will these people not listen?  Why would they not want to save money especially now.?

[Timkin]

does JTA EVER listen to any of your suggestions ?