JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville City Council\u2019s Duval DOGE committee officially tasked the Jacksonville Transportation Authority with answering some tough questions on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Last week, Action News Jax first broke the news with a list of more than a dozen questions submitted by City Councilman and committee member Rory Diamond.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n On Tuesday, a JTA representative was at the podium to promise answers.<\/p>\n They will specifically answer tough questions about the Ultimate Urban Circulator, the expansion of JTA\u2019s autonomous vehicles project that would eventually remodel the Skyway.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n That portion hasn\u2019t had a set scope, price tag, or timeline, even though Duval drivers are already funding it with a local option gas tax.<\/p>\n Action News Jax has been investigating the embattled project for more than a year, and on Tuesday, three DOGE committee members raised their concerns regarding the value of the project.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, the math isn\u2019t mathing,\u201d Diamond said. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n \u201cThe LOGT, local option gas tax, right, you know? How much discretion do we have?\u201d Jacksonville City Councilman and DOGE committee member Jimmy Peluso asked.<\/p>\n JTA promised to have answers ahead of the next Duval DOGE meeting. You can count on Action News Jax to be there.<\/p>\n At Tuesday\u2019s meeting, DOGE also tackled the Opioid Abatement Program Funds and the PATH program that addresses homelessness.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville City Council\u2019s Duval DOGE committee officially tasked the Jacksonville Transportation Authority with answering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12798,12797,5228,3094,12795,12796,9321,969,116,118,117,799,634,12799,9324],"class_list":["post-14795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-3_doge","tag-action_new_jacks","tag-action_news_jacks","tag-doge","tag-duva_doge_committee","tag-duvall","tag-gta","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jta","tag-local","tag-logt","tag-rory_diamond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}