JTA's On-Time Transit Operations Campaign (OTTO)

[Metro Jacksonville]

JTA's On-Time Transit Operations Campaign (OTTO)



According to a recent press release, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) has launched its On-Time Transit Operations (OTTO) campaign - following the re-opening of the Mathews Bridge - designed to improve on-time performance and enhance customer service.

Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-nov-jtas-on-time-transit-operations-campaign-otto-

[jaxlore]

I guess its something. When do we get our night buses!!! 8pm-3am on Friday and Saturday nights in the urban core please.

[tufsu1]

^ good luck with anything past 11pm

[aaapolito]

This is a start.

I would love to have more than 1 express bus on the K2 Line (Beaches to DT).  It's really popular, but there's only one going in early in the morning and one going out in the mid-afternoon (around 4:30).  What about the people that work closer to a 9-5/6 schedule?  JTA might see an increase in ridership on that line alone.

[JayBird]

^ agreed, but that is issue with ALL of JTA's express buses, not just the beaches.

[jph]

One thing I'd love to see out of JTA is integration with Google Maps. Their route planning feature is bad enough in a regular web browser but it's almost unusable on a phone. Is this a Google problem or a JTA one?

[Scrub Palmetto]

One thing I'd love to see out of JTA is integration with Google Maps. Their route planning feature is bad enough in a regular web browser but it's almost unusable on a phone. Is this a Google problem or a JTA one?

I would say it's resoundingly a JTA problem. With the widespread inclusion of almost every major transit system already in Google Maps, it's gotta be a local problem for JTA to be one of the largest that isn't.

As I posted a while back in another thread:

Here's a list of the top 80 U.S. metro areas with NO transit representation on Google Maps and their rank by 2012 population.

40. Jacksonville
42. Oklahoma City
48. Birmingham
52. Grand Rapids
54. Honolulu
64. Knoxville
65. Greenville
69. Baton Rouge
70. McAllen
71. Dayton
72. Columbia
80. Syracuse

Count 'em up: that's only 12 out of the top 80.

85% of the top 80 metro areas can be navigated with the help of Google Maps Transit.

97.5% of the top 40 can. Jacksonville is the 2.5%!

[thelakelander]

^That's pretty telling.  If Jax is the 2.5% of the top 40, then it's a local problem.

[urbaknight]

What about the WS7? That bus is always packed! I've taken the L7 to the Social Security Office severall times and that bus was always at least two/thirds empty. I hope they look at the WS7 next time around. That bus needs to run every half hour, not every hour, and it needs to run later into the night as well.

jaxlore, I agree with you 110%. run late night buses through the urban core, at the very least!