SKYWAY RIDERSHIP DOUBLES...WE TOLD YOU SO JTA!

[Timkin]

JC... if you were referring to Annie Lytle , what was destroyed by the fire was the final portion of the failing Auditorium roof. The wooden rafters set on fire.. I do not know how.  Because it was up in the air and not actually on the ground, it was rather quickly put out.  Because the remainder of the building is Brick Masonry and reinforced concrete, there really is very very little left to burn now and in any event, fire or no fire, the Auditorium roof would have had to be completely replaced.  the time to repair it would have been in the 1980s when it was still pretty much intact and leaking but not failing.  What remains now is Brick Concrete and Steel and all of it is just as straight as it ever was.  If not for the methods of  construction and the thought put into its construction, it would long ago have completely failed . It remains very much savable.

[blfair]

If they'd let us take bikes on the skyway, I'd probably use it a bit more often. Even more so if it were open on the weekends again.

Actually I oughta just try taking a bike... do you think the people watching the cameras would yell at me -- freeze the train until I removed my unauthorized 2 wheeled conveyance?

[tufsu1]

I think you should try to fit the Mini in a skyway car

[Ocklawaha]

If they'd let us take bikes on the skyway, I'd probably use it a bit more often. Even more so if it were open on the weekends again.

Actually I oughta just try taking a bike... do you think the people watching the cameras would yell at me -- freeze the train until I removed my unauthorized 2 wheeled conveyance?

The way to break this ban is to have the Bike Jacksonville clubs send a letter to both the executive director of JTA and to our city council's downtown representatives. Bikes ride INSIDE light rail and streetcars all over the world and on the front of buses in the rest of the world. Frankly I wouldn't mind a Skyway car full of bikes, hell bikes don't fart! ...and their quiet. If this fails then arrange for some OCCUPY SKYWAY days where a couple hundred bike riders climb on board with their rides, oh, and make sure every media outlet is notified in advance, just ask for the assignment editor.

Good luck! While I don't have a 'real' bike to ride to the protest, my 4 year old grandson has a trike and I might show up with that.

OCKLAWAHA

[blfair]

I think you should try to fit the Mini in a skyway car

That's probably not even against the rules... on that point, if it's bikes that are excluded, maybe a unicycle or a tricycle would be allowed?

Also I need a new profile pic I guess, I don't have the MINI anymore... but he's so darn cute.

[blfair]

The way to break this ban is to have the Bike Jacksonville clubs send a letter to both the executive director of JTA and to our city council's downtown representatives. Bikes ride INSIDE light rail and streetcars all over the world and on the front of buses in the rest of the world. Frankly I wouldn't mind a Skyway car full of bikes, hell bikes don't fart! ...and their quiet. If this fails then arrange for some OCCUPY SKYWAY days where a couple hundred bike riders climb on board with their rides, oh, and make sure every media outlet is notified in advance, just ask for the assignment editor.

Good luck! While I don't have a 'real' bike to ride to the protest, my 4 year old grandson has a trike and I might show up with that.

OCKLAWAHA

Yep -- I've seen transit all over the world with bikes onboard... I travel to Minneapolis a few times a year as of late, and always take the Hiawatha line from the airport. They allow bikes onboard, and people use it year round... you'll see bike and rider thawing out as the train moves along...

[tufsu1]

Also I need a new profile pic I guess, I don't have the MINI anymore... but he's so darn cute.

I'm pretty sure you have a new cool car you could show...maybe another hot little euro hatch

[blfair]

I'm pretty sure you have a new cool car you could show...maybe another hot little euro hatch

That's the wife's car, I don't think she'd appreciate me taking credit for her euro coolness. I'll just substitute another photo of me preparing to do something awesome as usual.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Fueling a Cessna?   

[blfair]

Fueling a Cessna?   

Don't be hatin' on my wichita tin...

[deathstar]

YES! Advertising in the stations, on the cars and inside the cars.

Ahem..

[PeeJayEss]

I'm all for public transit that can convey bikes, but the Skyway cars are just too dinky and poorly-laid out to really accommodate bikes well. Anything more than 1 bike in a car and things would start to get real hairy in there. Of course, if you go outside of One Spark, it will be empty and you'll have it to yourself, so not really an issue.

[johnnyliar]

I don't know why this old thread was dug up, but bikes are now allowed on the Skyway during non-peak hours.

[deathstar]

I only bumped it so Ock could see his post & shed a little light possibly on what we talked about just two years ago that's being done now.