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Amtrak Hiawatha Corridor Service
The Hiawatha runs fourteen trains daily between Chicago and Milwaukee. In a quick ninety-minute trip, you can be in the center of either city. This is the type of rail service Amtrak would like to implement between Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando and Tampa. Why are we ignoring this potential inter-city...
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How To Love BRT
If Jacksonville fails to get Bus Rapid Transit, it would be a tragic failure. As it is, currently with long headways, the JTA system is ineffective in all but rush hour service. However, because Metro Jacksonville and Jacksonville Transit Blog have expressed support for commuter rail, streetcars and...
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Amtrak: Expanding Intercity Corridors
Amtrak officials, now armed with an additional $15 billion in funds, have their eye on enhancing service in Florida. Does Jacksonville want in on the action?
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Commuter Rail Study Update: Costs and Ridership
JTA's commuter rail study is now far enough along to provide preliminary estimates for service frequencies, ridership projections, annual Operating and Maintenance costs, as well as capital costs. Will this be convincing enough to keep the train moving forward?
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Re-evaluating the Skyway
The Skyway has been one of the biggest points of contention in Jacksonville transportation history. Many critics claim it is a bust that goes from nowhere to nowhere. This article takes a look at the Skyway from a different viewpoint. One that reveals that expanding the system to make it more viable...
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The Incredible Vanishing Passenger Train Rescue Act
Many have heard of The Great Train Robbery, but not even Jessie James could have pulled this job off. With no Sheriff on the case, we are a state with as much promise as California, New York and Washington, but we continue to sit on our hands.
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Transit in Jacksonville, Let's Get Started!
The following video was presented by Metro Jacksonville for the 2008 Environmental Symposium held on August 26th by the City of Jacksonville's Environmental Quality Division.
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Commuter Rail Study Update
As a part of the First Coast Commuter Rail Feasibility Study, Gannett Fleming releases their final station recommendations. These locations will be used to determine potential ridership numbers for commuter rail corridors in Jacksonville
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Jacksonville's leaders outdone again!
While we continue to fiddle with Bus Rapid Transit and endless studies to appease the federal government, Birmingham, Alabama is moving forward with a plan that will add them to a growing list of cities with active rail transit within the past 18 to 24 months.
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Downtown's New Gateway: The Big "I"
A look at Jacksonville's Big "I". The I-95 / I-10 interchange reconstruction project.
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