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Like it, love it or hate it, it's decision time concerning what to do with the Skyway's future. Here's 9 reasons why the Skyway should be converted into a lightweight streetcar.

http://www.metrojack...streetcar/page/

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Jacksonville Might Modernize 1980s People Mover Like bell-bottoms, leisure suits, platform shoes and Brutalist architecture, downtown people movers have come to be regarded by many as period pieces, another of those tragic fashions of the 1970s that might best be relegated to the dustbin of history. Of the four such systems built in the United States from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, only one could be considered an unqualified success: Miami’s. And that’s because the rapid transit system for which it was to serve as a collector/distributor also got built too. The system in Morgantown, West Virginia, is a qualified success, as the on-demand service is generally considered the first working example of personal rapid transit.

https://nextcity.org...odernize-expand

 

 

 

Photos from O Scale Trolley Modelers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historical photo below shows how a ramp from the Skyway would take PCCs to street level.