Discover Jacksonville 2017

TRANSPORTATION
Southbound lanes opened Sept. 20,
2013.
• Construction began on Phase 2 in
2013. Phase 2 of State Road 9B is from
Interstate 95 to Philips Highway (U.S.
1). Construction began Sept. 8, 2015
on Phase 3, the final phase of State
Road 9B, from I-95 to County Road
2209 (St. Johns Parkway) in St. Johns
County. It is scheduled to be complete
in summer 2018.
• The Florida Department of
Transportation (FDOT) started
construction on a project to
improve the I-95/Butler Boulevard
interchange. The project — scheduled
for completion in summer 2017 —
will provide a flyover bridge for
southbound I-95 traffic exiting onto
eastbound Butler Boulevard, along
with about 10 other improvements.
• Tampa Bay to Northeast Florida
Corridor is a proposed new toll
road that would connect Tampa to
Jacksonville. The highway concept
could extend Suncoast Parkway
further north and east to meet
Interstate 75 somewhere around
Ocala, Gainesville or Lake City.
Three ways to ride: buses, trolley and skyway
The Jacksonville Transportation
Authority (904-630-3181; jtafla.com)
plans, designs and builds highway
projects. It also runs the city bus
system, the Skyway, trolleys, a stadium
shuttle, Park-N-Ride and a disabled and
disadvantaged rider service.
Public buses run across Jacksonville,
the beaches and into Clay County.
STAR is JTA's fare collection system
and it makes use of hard-plastic smart
cards and smart paper tickets. The
system features ticket vending machines
and “Simply Tap And Ride” card readers
on buses, trolleys, Community Shuttles
and paratransit vehicles.
JTA Paratransit Service provides
destination-to-destination public
transportation for people with
disabilities who are unable to use fixedroute
services. Paratransit Service also
offers travel training to people who
have the ability to use a fixed route and
are Americans with Disabilities Act
paratransit eligible.
Connexion, JTA's paratransit
service, is a comparable service under
the Americans with Disabilities Act
for people with disabilities who are
functionally unable to use regular fixed
route bus services for some or all of their
transportation needs, and for people
who are transportation disadvantaged.
Connexion runs daily, including holidays
(jtafla.com/schedules/paratransit).
Skyway: The JTA Skyway (jtafla.com/
schedules/skyway) is a 2.5-mile elevated
monorail system, offering service to
downtown patrons and employees. The
free system currently consists of two
routes that serve eight stations and cross
the St. Johns River on the Acosta Bridge.
The Skyway operates Monday through
Friday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and trains
arrive every three to eight minutes. The
Skyway is also open until 9:30 p.m. on
the first Wednesday of each month for
First Wednesday Art Walk.
JTA also offers the Riverside
Avondale Night Trolley