JTA & Boyer Get It Right

[ricker]

^ c'mon Professor.
I think, for me, a portion of what makes any if not all if this newsworthy is the fact that this went from before to after due in large part to smart reuse of needed materials.

WHY STORE THESE THINGS WHEN THE OVERWHRLMING MAJORITY OF OUR "busstops" ARE NOT UP TO SNUFF!?
it is simply unreasonable to expect all bus shelters to be new and shiny.

I give it an A+.

[Ocklawaha]

An improvement indeed.  Is this a preexisting shelter?  It looks so dated

Professor, best I can tell, this is a reuse of an older shelter that they had refurbished. I specificily asked for a 'used' shelter if it would speed installation. JTA has really done a fine job, as exnewsman has pointed out they arranged the shelter to accomodate walkers and wheel chairs. Those things won't go to waste in this neighborhood, there is a compounding pharmacy at this stop.

OCKLAWAHA                                               

[duvaldude08]

^^Who would I email to make some noise about the skyways stations. Sometimes just nice accomdations will make a person's ride much more pleasent. After seeing the skyway being exposed on the news I was pissed. They wont people to use the skyway, but NOTHING works and they have empty attendany booths. If they upgraded the turnstyles to a modern system, fix the change machines (that is so pathetic) and have attendants there to help passengers it would be completey different experience. SIMPLE THINGS. Hell if car washes have attendants on hand to assist customers. Again, who would I email with my concerns?

[exnewsman]

^^Who would I email to make some noise about the skyways stations. Sometimes just nice accomdations will make a person's ride much more pleasent. After seeing the skyway being exposed on the news I was pissed. They wont people to use the skyway, but NOTHING works and they have empty attendany booths. If they upgraded the turnstyles to a modern system, fix the change machines (that is so pathetic) and have attendants there to help passengers it would be completey different experience. SIMPLE THINGS. Hell if car washes have attendants on hand to assist customers. Again, who would I email with my concerns?

This is JTA's comment section.

http://www.jtafla.com/RidingJTA/showPage.aspx?Sel=19

[Ocklawaha]

^^Who would I email to make some noise about the skyways stations. Sometimes just nice accomdations will make a person's ride much more pleasent. After seeing the skyway being exposed on the news I was pissed. They wont people to use the skyway, but NOTHING works and they have empty attendany booths. If they upgraded the turnstyles to a modern system, fix the change machines (that is so pathetic) and have attendants there to help passengers it would be completey different experience. SIMPLE THINGS. Hell if car washes have attendants on hand to assist customers. Again, who would I email with my concerns?

Try to Visit with the councilman or woman for the district that needs improvement. Have a plan already drawn up, do the homework in advance. A good approach would be to stand around the Skyway and collect opinions and ideas, (make sure to get the name and address of the commentator). Be bold with your suggestions/proposal, speak to both the problem and the solution, including photos and maps in your package.

JTA currently has a call center  and I'd like to see them study the idea of moving some if not all of these employees to the customer service windows at various Skyway Stations. I'd suggest that the Skyway be free of charge and plugged into each bus route as the downtown connector.

JTA should also take advantage of the current political action in Washington DC, and apply for a Skyway extension to east Bay Street, San Marco Square, Baptist/Wolfson Hospital,Annie Lytle School/TOD,  Shand's and the Farmers Market. All of these are minor extensions and the right-of-way is already intact.

OCKLAWAHA

[duvaldude08]

^^Who would I email to make some noise about the skyways stations. Sometimes just nice accomdations will make a person's ride much more pleasent. After seeing the skyway being exposed on the news I was pissed. They wont people to use the skyway, but NOTHING works and they have empty attendany booths. If they upgraded the turnstyles to a modern system, fix the change machines (that is so pathetic) and have attendants there to help passengers it would be completey different experience. SIMPLE THINGS. Hell if car washes have attendants on hand to assist customers. Again, who would I email with my concerns?

Try to Visit with the councilman or woman for the district that needs improvement. Have a plan already drawn up, do the homework in advance. A good approach would be to stand around the Skyway and collect opinions and ideas, (make sure to get the name and address of the commentator). Be bold with your suggestions/proposal, speak to both the problem and the solution, including photos and maps in your package.

JTA currently has a call center  and I'd like to see them study the idea of moving some if not all of these employees to the customer service windows at various Skyway Stations. I'd suggest that the Skyway be free of charge and plugged into each bus route as the downtown connector.

JTA should also take advantage of the current political action in Washington DC, and apply for a Skyway extension to east Bay Street, San Marco Square, Baptist/Wolfson Hospital,Annie Lytle School/TOD,  Shand's and the Farmers Market. All of these are minor extensions and the right-of-way is already intact.

OCKLAWAHA

Gotcha. I work across the street from the San Marco Station. Im going to walk over there on break tomorrow and make some more observations