Expanding the Skyway: Where would you like it to go?

<h1>Thinking Outside of the Box</h1>

The survey also allows for the user to provide their thoughts on additional ideas that can help enhance the Skyway’s value to the community. Exapansion can mean more than a physical extension of track mileage. For example, additional suggestions could be as simple as better connecting and utilizing the existing system to the benefit of major destinations already within a 1/4-mile walk of its stations.

Removing the fence blocking the sidewalk from the Skyway’s Rosa Parks Station could be a simple solution to enhancing direct connectivity between the Skyway and Florida State College at Jacksonville’s downtown campus.

Encouraging or incentivizing infill development on under utilized properties adjacent to existing stations could increase ridership without a physical expansion of the system.

The Skyway survey also would like to know if longer hours or weekend service would be helpful to making the transit system a regular mobility choice during your time in Jacksonville’s urban core. JTA staff plans to present their strategic vision and implementation plan for the Skyway to the JTA Board of Directors in December 2016.

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For more information: https://www.jtafla.com/blueprint-2020/skyway-modernization-program/

Article by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com