Get Rid of Beg Buttons - COVID19

[Peter Griffin]

I was talking about sidewalks. I was arguing that building sidewalks is more important than "upgrading" functional pedestrian crossings. Never said anything about funding, just the overall priority of sidewalk facility improvements.

The talk about Jax wasting money on the projects you listed is trite, and it's getting really old to see people constantly referring back to them offering nothing new to the conversation in threads which were not about big development projects.

[jaxlongtimer]

^I was referring to having both sidewalks and advanced technology for pedestrian crossings, not one at the exclusion of the other.  To support that, I pointed out there is potentially plenty of resources available, with specific examples for those wondering how, if the City changed its "priorities."

Your original statement, "Many many things are far higher up on the priority list than THIS" opened the door to a response addressing any and all possibilities (i.e. those "many many things").

And, sorry, I don't think siphoning off hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars year after year on questionable projects is ever trite and I find nothing wrong with holding our elected officials accountable for same.  Those diversions impact the lack of funding for many of the items discussed on these discussion boards so its appropriate to point them out in similar discussions about what to fund and what isn't being funded.

[bl8jaxnative]

The pedestrian focus for sidewalks should be in areas with high pedestrian traffic and that need them.

Most residential doesn't need sidewalks.  Traffic is sparse and the roads are wide.