First Coast Connect

12/07/2018: Media Roundtable; Supportive Housing Pilot Results

WJCT News | By Bill Bortzfield

Published December 7, 2018 at 2:50 PM EST

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The city will be getting $12.5 million in federal money to demolish part of the Hart Bridge ramp system and make traffic improvements to portions of Gator Bowl Blvd., Bay St. and A. Phillip Randolph Blvd.

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This rendering shows Bay Street filled with autonomous vehicles. JTA will be using its $12.5 million share of $25 million in federal money coming to Jacksonville to make the self-driving electric transit vehicles a reality.

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This video screengrab illustrates the connectivity that even pedestrians would have to the Bay Jax Innovation Corridor system.

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In this week’s First Coast Connect Media Roundtable our panel of journalists looked at:

Jacksonville and JTA getting $25 million in federal money to improve downtown traffic flow and start work on the Bay Jax Innovation Corridor.
Mayor Lenny Curry’s administration saying it wants to eventually move the downtown jail.
And other news making headlines this week.

Our guests were:

John Burr, WJCT contributor
Dan Scanlan, a reporter with The Florida Times-Union
Timothy Gibbons, Jacksonville Business Journal Editor
Sherry Magill, co-founder of JaxLookout.com

The Solution That Saves

Ability Housing is out this month with the results of a two-year state pilot called The Solution That Saves, which has been studying the cost benefits of permanent supportive housing.

Shannon Nazworth, the CEO of Ability Housing joined us with a look at the findings and what they could mean for policy in 2019 and beyond.

Bill Bortzfield can be reached at bbortzfield@wjct.org, 904-358-6349 or on Twitter at @BortzInJax.