ock. Whats a real world timetable on rail for Duval?
Sorry to say our leadership is ignorant about rail of all types. Clarks statement at City Council this evening sums it up pretty well when discussing the mobility plan. "NONE OF THIS WILL HELP RAIL." Spoken or unspoken these guys flee from change. JTA has the studies and in fact has one ongoing on commuter rail but the will at the city level is missing completely.
Streetcar? The Mobility Plan compromise and amendments at the very least shoves streetcar off the stage in the immediate future and at worst kills any chance of it ever happening.
Amtrak both on the FEC or anywhere else has seen about ZERO expansion under the rail friendly Obama Administration.On the FEC all momentum has stalled out. They don't even return phone calls from the city or JTA, we're off the radar.
AAF, is battling the Beachline toll road which is tossing obstructions under the train at a rapid pace that is now joined by the airlines serving OIA. Though this is in reality a government project under the cover of privatization, the very fact that government is involved in right-of-way and loans probably means Jacksonville Terminal will be all a buzz of crickets.
FDOT/JTA/AMTRAK are going nowhere very fast on the so-called JRTC which has been reduced pretty much to a 'dream project.'
Sorry, but I'm headed to OKC, Denver, LA and Portland sometime in the summer, possibly Colombia too, my return to JAX seems less important by the day. Oh, and I own a cabin on 5 acres in Southern California... south of the Amboy and Bagdad Crater Volcanic cones. Oh and what a view of the BNSF mainline from Amboy!
