Its a ticking time bomb. Its not going to end well for Jacksonville and no amount of fanfare is going to save it from reality. Nothing has literally changed from a technical concern since we've began raising them since day one, years ago. Its a bad game of musical chairs and whoever doesn't jump off ship before the music stops is going to suffer politically.
I was astonished by Deegan’s response to being asked about the engineer’s quote. It’s a bewildering misstep on a major and costly issue for someone who has generally done a good job. Especially because once the dust settles, I’m unsure where the credibility or local funding would come from to do any more substantive transit development for years.
Those emails are dated from less than a year ago, after JTA was denied their five-year extension request. Alarm bells appear to be continually going off at multiple levels of government and being silenced solely by local authorities. And for what?
Meanwhile, JTA’s State of the Authority is Thursday, followed by their Autonomous Vehicle Day event on Friday. Three days in a row to pat themselves on the back and continue ignoring why exactly they’re at “the front of the pack” on self-driving vans at taxpayer expense.
Credit Action News for staying on this since no one else is. Disappointed that Nate Monroe is not all over it as this is the biggest fiasco in the City since Zahn's scheme. Someone could win some journalism awards for exposing this fraud!
Emily Turner certainly seems deserving of some credit for the amount of digging she’s doing into this. The sheer degree of wagon circling in response to this coverage is just astonishing. Guess this city needs more than one journalist.
