IMAGINEER SOMETHING BOLD ON THE SOUTHBANK!
Imagine this as a Transit Idea. Since we seem to have trouble figuring out how to serve Atena, Baptist Medical, Wolfson or Nemouirs Hospitals on the City's curving Southbank, imagine an air conditioned Sky walk from the San Marco Skyway Station to Baptist Hospital. Over the Acosta Freeway, Over the FEC, Over the Parking lots and right to the front doors of the buildings. We could install moving sidewalks, lease out kiosks, food vendor carts and creature comforts, add security, and the city would have a fantastic viewing window on the Southbank. A window with a purpose. With 9,000 current employees ignored by the Skyway and most JTA bus routes, I have been working on a solution, this is just one idea to re-connect 1/2 of 1/4 of our downtown to our downtown. Keeping in mind there are current proposals for massive hospital expansion plus a new 56 floor tower on the drawing boards. This would take a fraction of the money for a busway or new Skyway link, and still tie it all together in seconds. Pull the buses South and East back to Kings Avenue Station and the entire area could be swept clean of street clutter, benches, signs, most buses etc... and the Kings Avenue Station would bloom into the mini-transit center it was designed to be. Skyway trains, Buses galore and future streetcars. IMAGINE.
THINK BOLD JACKSONVILLE!
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