For anyone who wants to weigh in on the future of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority’s Downtown Skyway and autonomous shuttle system, there’s a deadline on Friday. JTA officials are asking Jacksonville area residents and business owners to take its online survey on five alternatives proposals on how Downtown’s elevated monorail system should be modernized or retired as part phase II of its Ultimate Urban Circulator program, known as the U2C. The survey will also help the agency determine how to complete buildout on its Neighborhood Autonomous Vehicle Innovations shuttle system, or NAVI. Here are the options JTA is considering: - Keeping the Skyway system operating as it does today and finding a manufacturer to repair, rehab and rebuild the vehicle fleet back to the original form. - Replace the current Skyway system with a new fleet of modern autonomous people moving trains. - Convert the track and system to autonomous vehicles. - Remove the Skyway structure and operate autonomous vehicles on existing streets. - Repurpose the Skyway as a multiuse trail and operate autonomous vehicles on existing streets. After the surveys close Friday, JTA will analyze the alternatives. In May, there will be a second round of public meetings on the results. June is when the JTA board will weigh in and select an alternative. By August, the agency wants to have a Project Development and Environment study completed that will include new cost estimates for the U2C with the selected Skyway alternative. JTA held a series of community meetings on the alternatives in March and April, and Ford said there will be future public engagement after the alternatives are narrowed to three. JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford gave an update on the surveys and study timeline Tuesday at a Jacksonville City Council Duval DOGE meeting. He says, to date, survey