Amtrak on the Florida East Coast Moving Forward

[Jaxson]

Somebody at Clifford Lane must have some incriminating photos of our city leaders.  This location is a trash can and has outlived its usefulness - IMHO

[urbaknight]

Compared to other cities' passenger rail stations, our Clifford Lane Amshack is very inconvenient.  It is isolated from lodging, dining and retail.  Furthermore, Clifford Lane is not a central location - in reality, many Jacksonville people do not even know that it exists.  This lack of visibility hurts train ridership.

I am one of those who at least knows it exists (thanks to this site, incidentally), but have no idea where it is or how to get to it.  I admit that's my own fault, as I wallow in my naivety, but it's also because it's not centralized, advertised, or prioritized.

If the main facility was downtown, and we had some kind of commuter/regional rail in place, I'd be on it in a heartbeat. 

You can't get to the amshack station without driving to it, that's how the city planned it, no car, no worth!

[urbanlibertarian]

urbaknight, it looks like CT4 goes to Amshack every 30 min from 5:11am to 12:41am every weekday and every hour on the weekend.

[urbaknight]

My bad, I forgot about the CT4. But the fact that only one bus runs to and from, speacks to the sarcastic post that I made earlier.

[tufsu1]

My bad, I forgot about the CT4. But the fact that only one bus runs to and from, speacks to the sarcastic post that I made earlier.

buses every 30 minutes...and obviously you can transfer to/from other routes downtown...while not ideal, that's not bad service either

[Jaxson]

I would not take two or three buses to get to the train station from my home.  I would rather take my car or have someone drop me off.  I do not feel totally comfortable in that side of town.

[tufsu1]

I would not take two or three buses to get to the train station from my home.  I would rather take my car or have someone drop me off.  I do not feel totally comfortable in that side of town.

even in cities with good transit systems, point-to-point service without transfers are rare....be that rail-rail, rail-bus, or bus-bus.

[ricker]

Somebody at Clifford Lane must have some incriminating photos of our city leaders.  This location is a trash can and has outlived its usefulness - IMHO

I laughed my pasta outta my mouf!
thankyou

[Ocklawaha]

My bad, I forgot about the CT4. But the fact that only one bus runs to and from, speacks to the sarcastic post that I made earlier.

buses every 30 minutes...and obviously you can transfer to/from other routes downtown...while not ideal, that's not bad service either

K2 Grand Park / Amtrak / Beach Blvd.
CT4 Atlantic Village / Amtrak INTERLINER SERVICE B7

Not bad headways, it's just too bad that JTA doesn't know what a transfer really is.

OCKLAWAHA