East Bay Closed

[02roadking]

East Bay Street between Marsh and Lafayette streets will be closed to all traffic starting Monday while a new, wider bridge is constructed over Hogan's Creek. The closure is expected to last six months.

Westbound traffic on East Bay will be detoured north onto A. Philip Randolph Boulevard, while eastbound traffic will take Liberty Street north.

The city estimates the project to cost about $3 million, paid from the capital improvement budget. Lucas Marine Construction is performing the work.

[Ocklawaha]

Bet they don't lay streetcar track in it, even though "THEY ARE DOING A STREETCAR STUDY."
Based on this, and the FDOT meeting, we can calculate that the "streetcar" will not go anywhere
near the Prime Osbourne, and somehow, I bet it doesn't go down Bay either... hee hee

In reality, I'd keep it off Bay, and use Water to Newnan, then up into Springfield. Bay is already
staked out by our Skyway, and they need to finish the Damned thing. Anyone that thinks I'm just
being sarcastic (some devil can't stand my style) look at Seattle, they laid track 10-20 years
BEFORE they did Light Rail or Streetcars, to save money down the road. Anywhere they thought
there would be a certain need, like Hogan's Creek Bridges, Ortega, Matthews or other bridges,
Transit Tunnels, etc... they laid track on. If JTA was serious, we could see some along Myrtle
Tunnel? Maybe Hogans Creek? Park Street Trolley Stations?

I'm not talking about miles of track, I'm talking about 2 or 4 sections of rail, just to get through or
across the new facility. Build a 5-Points Potato-Chip-Trolley-Station and lay the track in there
TODAY!

Ocklawaha

[thelakelander]

Bet they don't lay streetcar track in it, even though "THEY ARE DOING A STREETCAR STUDY."
Based on this, and the FDOT meeting, we can calculate that the "streetcar" will not go anywhere
near the Prime Osbourne, and somehow, I bet it doesn't go down Bay either... hee hee

Historically, that's not how we've done things around here.  Don't you know if a study deems that a streetcar would be nice on Bay 30 years from now, we can convert our BRT lanes into tracks at a cheaper price than it would be to lay the tracks in the first place.  After all, a couple of million is just a drop in the bucket when you already have $100 million in house money.

[Jason]

How many Monopoly games does it take to round up $100 million?