Extra patrols will hit Jacksonville streets beginning this week to help improve bicyclist and pedestrian safety through a new High Visibility Enforcement project funded by the University of North Florida.
The $57,096 contract from the university, in partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation, is specifically designed to pay for Sheriff’s Office overtime traffic deployments. Enforcement efforts will focus primarily on educating drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, the Sheriff s Office said. However, violations may result in warnings or citations depending on the circumstances.
It s the right time for renewed education and enforcement in Jacksonville, said Stephen Tocknell, advocacy director for the North Florida Bicycle Club. The city had eight bicycling deaths in 2020, plus one in Clay County and another on Florida A1A just south of Ponte Vedra Beach. That s according to an interactive map of bicycle crashes and fatalities assembled by Outside, an onlin
When former Jacksonville Jaguar Lonnie Marts Jr. hung up the phone last fall after talking with Times-Union reporter Beth Reese Cravey, he had no idea what would happen next: A story about a community, a good cause and a newspaper.
Cravey had reached out to the former linebacker to talk to him for a November story about his new Level the Playing Field Leadership Academy.
To explain what he was trying to accomplish with the academy, Marts told Cravey about his relationship with his mother.
Janet Marie Marts was a single parent raising Lonnie in a low-income New Orleans neighborhood. She and Lonnie’s grandparents worked hard to keep Marts out of trouble.
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$10M Investment in Virginia Firm to Expand American Center for Mobility
A $10 million investment by a Florida group in a Virginia robotics company will lead to an expansion of the American Center for Mobility (ACM) in Ypsilanti Township.
Zero-emission fully autonomous public transit van using Perrone Robotics technology. // Photo courtesy of Perrone Robotics
A $10 million investment by a Florida group in a Virginia robotics company will lead to an expansion of the American Center for Mobility (ACM) in Ypsilanti Township.
CapStone Holdings, a business incubator and investment group in Bonita Springs, Fla., has invested $10 million in Virginia autonomous vehicle systems provider Perrone Robotics Inc., which will utilize a portion of the investment to establish an advanced autonomous vehicle testing facility at the ACM.
Make downtown livable and workable : Jacksonville city leaders discusses improvements to Urban Core If the city sets an example for a high standards I think other businesses will follow and continue to show pride, business leaders said during a discussion Monday. Author: Renata Di Gregorio Updated: 2:45 PM EST February 22, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry met with city leaders and business owners to talk about the future of development in Downtown Jacksonville Monday morning.
The meeting was a starting point for finding out what’s important to people when it comes to revitalizing downtown and actually getting it done.
The chairman for the committee heading this says the mayor is willing to address it in the next city budget.
Two city events next week will focus on Downtown riverfront development and improving Jacksonville’s urban core.
Downtown
On Feb. 22, Mayor Lenny Curry will have a public discussion with corporate leaders and public officials with a “vested interest in Downtown Jacksonville.”
The 9 a.m. meeting in Multi-purpose Room 1 at the Jacksonville Main Library is open to the public.
In addition to Curry, it will be attended by:
• The Vestcor Companies Chairman John Rood. The homebuilder has been increasing its Downtown multifamily housing portfolio since 2007 and opened its 133-unit workforce housing community Lofts at Brooklyn on Feb. 11.
• Fidelity National Information Services Inc. Chairman and CEO Gary Norcross. The Jacksonville-based, global financial technology firm is building a 12-story, $156 million world headquarters in Brooklyn.