Bigger Skyway trains or conversion to walking trail get public support - Jacksonville residents are weighing in on the future of the city's elevated Skyway system. - Top public choices include running larger trains or converting the structure into a walking and biking path. - Other options involve using autonomous shuttles, demolishing the structure, or continuing the current system until it fails. - The Jacksonville Transportation Authority will make a final decision this summer after reviewing public feedback and cost estimates. Public comments submitted so far on the future of the Skyway show the top choices are to either run bigger trains on the elevated structure or turn it into an above-ground path for walking and bicycling. Jacksonville Transportation Authority CEO Nat Ford said the agency will keep taking opinions until April 10 in the current round of public feedback. The JTA board will make a final decision this summer. "There's still a lot of work that needs to be done," Ford told the Duval DOGE Committee of City Council at its April 7 meeting. One alternative under consideration is to reconstruct the elevated structure in downtown so rubber-tired autonomous transit shuttles can operate on it with ramps connecting the structure to streets. JTA started operating those autonomous shuttles on a Bay Street loop last summer. The Neighborhood Autonomous Vehicle Innovation shuttles — known as NAVI — have struggled to attract passengers. JTA has said in the past the plan for the Skyway structure would be to put the shuttles on it as part of an Ultimate Urban Circulator system — U2C for short — connecting downtown to surrounding neighborhoods. Ford told the Duval DOGE Committee the ongoing study is taking a fresh, wide-open look. "I said from the outset of this process that we as the JTA wanted to