{"id":532614,"date":"2026-01-21T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/532614\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:10:13","slug":"jta-to-host-2026-state-of-the-authority-introduce-25-year-vision-plan-new-initiatives-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/532614\/","title":{"rendered":"JTA to host 2026 State of the Authority, introduce 25-year vision plan, new initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/Jacksonville_Transportation_Authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/Jacksonville_Transportation_Authority\/\">Jacksonville Transportation Authority<\/a> will host its 2026 State of the Authority on Wednesday to recap its 2025 achievements and its vision for the year ahead and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/15\/jta-concludes-community-meetings-with-changes-to-paratransit-pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/15\/jta-concludes-community-meetings-with-changes-to-paratransit-pricing\/\"><b>JTA concludes community meetings with changes to paratransit pricing<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In 2025, JTA launched NAVI, an autonomous public transportation service, a collaboration with HOLON\u2019s announcement to move their U.S. headquarters and establish their first U.S. manufacturing facility in Jacksonville, the opening of the ARTEA, the completion of MobilityWorks 1.0, and the onboarding of new bus operators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JTA CEO Nat Ford will introduce MVP 2050 (The Mobility Visioning Plan 2050, a roadmap for Jacksonville\u2019s transportation future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The event will also take a look at the JTA\u2019s Better Together campaign, focused on strengthening community connections with JTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials will also have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/13\/jta-says-its-continuing-its-connexion-plus-program-after-listening-to-customer-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/13\/jta-says-its-continuing-its-connexion-plus-program-after-listening-to-customer-concerns\/\">update on the controversial upcoming fare reduction pilot program<\/a> set to take effect Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">K. Jane Williams, the former Administrator for the Federal Transit Administration, is the keynote speaker. She is now the Senior Vice President and National Practice Leader in HNTB Corporation\u2019s Advisory practice. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Transportation Authority will host its 2026 State of the Authority on Wednesday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":531876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,8314,3188,723,7310,20344,18708,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-532614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-duval-county","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-transportation-authority","14":"tag-jta","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115934201281730290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}