City councilmember demands answers about autonomous downtown shuttle program

A Jacksonville City Council Member is demanding detailed answers from JTA about its Ultimate Urban Circulator project and downtown NAVI autonomous shuttle program.

Action News Jax told you earlier this month that the NAVI shuttles were averaging roughly 137 riders per day, which Councilmember Rory Diamond (R-District 13) argued is unacceptable given the $65 million that has already been dumped into the project.

“You could have taken $65 million and just paid for people to take taxis, and you would have had a more efficient system,” said Diamond.

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Diamond, who sits on the Duval DOGE Committee, sent a letter to JTA CEO Nat Ford last week, writing in part, “There is growing concern among the public regarding the financial exposure, technological reliability, and overall feasibility of the U2C initiative”…

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