{"id":553681,"date":"2026-01-30T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/553681\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:01:19","slug":"jacksonville-city-council-member-calls-for-withholding-jta-funding-over-paratransit-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/553681\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville City Council member calls for withholding JTA funding over paratransit changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A Jacksonville City Council member is pushing for council action to potentially withhold funding from the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) if the agency moves forward with changes to its Connexion Plus program, a door-to-door paratransit service for seniors and residents with disabilities.<br \/>\nCouncilman Jimmy Peluso issued the warning on social media following JTA\u2019s decision to delay a controversial vote on fare increases.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI will make it very clear, Jacksonville Transportation Authority needs to keep the fare for Connexion Plus at its current price, or I\u2019ll push for City Council to act,\u201d Peluso said in the statement. \u201cThe JTA requires funds from the Council, and we can just as easily withhold them if JTA leadership doesn\u2019t change course.\u201d<br \/>\nReporter Chris Will has the latest on the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS A Jacksonville City Council member is pushing for council action to potentially withhold funding from the Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":553682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,5310,8314,3188,723,7310,51559,18708,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-553681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-duval-county","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jimmy-peluso","15":"tag-jta","16":"tag-transportation","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115983475369246033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553681","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=553681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}