{"id":383681,"date":"2026-08-28T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:28:08","slug":"jta-everything-is-on-the-table-regarding-autonomous-vehicles-and-gas-tax-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383681\/","title":{"rendered":"JTA: \u2018Everything is on the table\u2019 regarding autonomous vehicles and gas tax plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jacksonville Transportation Authority executive said autonomous public transit development in Downtown Jacksonville and surrounding neighborhoods will be reexamined amid a second straight year of revenue shortfalls and expense increases for the JTA.<\/p>\n

Cleveland Ferguson, who was named interim CEO of JTA at the Aug. 27 board meeting, said \u201ceverything is on the table\u201d as the authority considers how to spend $247 million that was planned for the build-out of the Ultimate Urban Circulator<\/a>, or U2C, as the authority faces cuts to staff and service along with increases in rider fares.<\/p>\n

Ostensibly, options for JTA\u2019s autonomous transit program could be slowing it down or eliminating it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to work through a plan,\u201d Ferguson said, asked about the future of revenue from a local six-cent gas tax. \u201cWe will be having conversations with the city, both the mayor\u2019s office and the City Council, about making those decisions in the future. So we are definitely going to have those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this story<\/a> from Jacksonville Today partner the Jacksonville Daily Record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville Transportation Authority executive said autonomous public transit development in Downtown Jacksonville and surrounding neighborhoods will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-383681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383681","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=383681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}