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Gainesville City Commissioner Cynthia Chestnut to note transportation advancements at national conference

November 15, 2023

Press release from City of Gainesville

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville City Commissioner Cynthia Chestnut will share local advances in transportation technologies during a panel discussion Thursday at the 2023 National League of Cities (NLC) City Summit in Atlanta.

The summit session, “Delivery Robots, Electric Fleet, and Sensors: The Municipal Role and the Environmental Opportunity,” will explore recent advancements in transportation and delivery systems. Panelists will address integrating these technologies into their communities while balancing the needs of pedestrians, cyclists, and traditional vehicles.

Commissioner Chestnut will highlight Gainesville’s sustainable transportation alternatives, such as the City’s micromobility program that introduced and regulates the safe use of electric scooters, as well as other successful pilot programs in partnership with the University of Florida and the Florida Department of Transportation.

Commissioner Chestnut serves on the NLC’s Community and Economic Development Committee.

  • You have to be kidding. What successful pilot programs? Electric scooter riders pay as little attention to their driving as the pedestrians do to their walking.

  • Is the city trolling?…Is this a sarcastic press release or is this just the egotistical blind leading the unknowing blind once again?
    Everyone knows transportation is horribly dangerous in Gville…those scooters are a death trap and are littered all over neighborhoods, sidewalks and streets

  • She should ask the BoCC if she can borrow Jonathan Paul and Jeff Hays for a day trip to ATL so they can woo the NLC with how they used Multi-Modal Transportation Mitigation (MMTM) to make cars passé in Gainesville.

  • Scooters? 🤣
    Wonder if she’s going to tell how many have been stolen, how many have been in accidents and how many riders have been killed?
    She looks as if she could use some transportation – the self-propelled kind. Close those circles on that watch of her’s.

  • one of the advances is the joy of “obstacle course driving” around the many fractured roads and potholes in the city & county.

  • At an intersection near Shands about a month ago I saw where some wonderful young person just dropped one of those scooters ,without the kick stand down, laying in the middle of the sidewalk. Here comes a blind person using their cane and falls over the scooter laying in the middle of the sidewalk. If I weren’t in the turn lane I would have gotten out and thrown that stupid scooter into the closest body of water. Between these stupid scooters and the selfish people who ride them I don’t know what is worse.

  • It turns out they are really expensive to ride, and now almost nobody uses them. It’s another sad mistake made by the paste-eating former mayor and his deranged sicophants.

  • “Panelists will address integrating these technologies into their communities while balancing the needs of pedestrians, cyclists, and traditional vehicles.”

    Yeah, those new technologies of streets, curbs, and sidewalks need lot more committee work. What’s next, a summit over horn-beeping and the color of stop signs?

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