Pearl Street to be closed?

[thelakelander]

Where's the keep Monroe Street open crowd?  Discussion is taking place to close Pearl Street instead of building a pedestrian overpass at the new courthouse.


Pearl Street would be closed. Closing Pearl Street means if you were traveling westbound on Duval and missed turning left on Laura to head south, you'd be forced to travel six blocks out of the way to Jefferson Street, to move in that direction.  For a city who wants its streets to be less confusing, that's not the way to go.

“If the bids come in and we can’t afford the pedestrian bridge, we do have an at-grade secured structure” as an alternative, said Goldsbury.

He described a walkway across Pearl Street in the middle of the block between the two buildings. Goldsbury said the south end of the block would have to remain open to provide access to the parking area in the courthouse. The area north of the walkway would probably be landscaped, he said.

full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=537739

[tufsu1]

we need to make sure this doesn't happen....if JTA can't figure out how to add bike facilities to Braod & Jefferson, the logical alternative is Pearl Street....which could be a great bike connector between downtown and Springfield...and only a slight jog to access the Acosta Bridge over to San Marco.

[JeffreyS]

How about people cross at the crosswalk when the light changes?

[thelakelander]

Angela Corey doesn't want to mix in with the regular people.  So we'll just limit the area's access to 99% of the 870,000 people living in Duval County.  Or we'll pay for an elevated crosswalk. Sounds like a fair trade off.

[fsujax]

Good grief. Don't they mix with the everyday folk now? she needs to get over it.

[finehoe]

Angela Corey doesn't want to mix in with the regular people.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy her one of these?

[Debbie Thompson]

Good grief. I've spent years going around the courthouse waiting for Pearl to open back up so I could drive all the way through, and now they want to close it because people don't want to walk across the flipping street?

It's a public street. How many more do you want to close? Let's see how difficult we can make it to drive downtown.

[urbaknight]

 ^LOL
It looks like the Pope Mobile! I'm sure she recons herself categorized as high profiled as that.

[KuroiKetsunoHana]

How about people cross at the crosswalk when the light changes?

sounds too avant-garde.

[John P]

This is too dumb to acknowledge. SIX CITY BLOCKS TO CHANGE FREAKING DIRECTION?

[tufsu1]

Not that i agree with Ms. Corey....but she says her prosecuters cant safely mingle with defendant's family & friends

[thelakelander]

I do find it pathetic that we can shut a street down or find $800k for a ped overpass for Angela Corey but we can't put a sidewalk on that street.

[avonjax]

I can't comment. You would have to censor it! I promise.

[Pinky]

Seriously?

We're going to hack up downtown so that we can *close the street to the public* to keep Corey's crew separate from the rabble???  Seriously?!?  Her personal Bridge To Nowhere wasn't an obscene enough demand to make on us?  Now we have to close streets for her private use?  Does Angela really have so little confidence in the JSO Deputies ability to keep people safe in and around the courthouse?

Does ANY other city have any such arrangement for their prosecutors?  I'm sure there are exclusive doors and such, but suspension bridges and Red Zone streets?? We really don't need to be spending this kind of money on this sort of foolishness if it's not the norm..

[coredumped]

Maybe should could ride the bus. Isn't there a JTA stop right out front? Then she's not out in the elements as long.