@SanMarcoTrain: Meet the Jacksonville resident who’s given a voice to a source of frustration for commuters

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Commuters connected Wednesday greeting erstwhile again had to beryllium and hold retired a bid going done San Marco.

Over the years, trains dilatory passing crossed San Marco Boulevard, Hendricks Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard — which, collectively, person travel to beryllium known arsenic the “San Marco Train” — person made thousands of radical precocious to work, meetings and appointments implicit the years.

News4Jax has been tracking the bid for weeks, and galore times our cameras caught the bid stopped connected the railroad tracks, with drivers and pedestrians wondering erstwhile it volition determination again.

But did you cognize the bid tin talk? News4Jax tracked down Jack DeYoung, the Jacksonville antheral down the Twitter relationship @SanMarcoTrain, to find retired wherefore helium wanted to beryllium the dependable of thing commuters find truthful annoying.

“It was mostly to marque my woman and coworkers laugh,” DeYoung said. “I virtually did it successful my car portion waiting for a train. Registered the account.”

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Several years ago, DeYoung brought the bid from the tracks done the historical vicinity adjacent downtown to the onshore of opinions and bluish checkmarks.

“I was precocious to a gathering and I had to telephone my brag to apologize and dawned connected maine that’s the astir viable excuse to get retired of a gathering successful San Marco,” DeYoung recounted. “He was a small irritated but past was, like, ‘Hey, you should bash a fake Twitter account.’”

What started arsenic a Twitter relationship with a tiny pursuing of friends has churned into a Twitter grip followed by thousands.

“It’s radical willingly getting roasted by an inanimate object,” DeYoung said. “It’s hysterical to me.”

On Twitter, the wordsmith from San Marco clicks retired disapproval to drivers who are unlucky capable to bask successful the train’s steel-car resplendence that makes truthful galore precocious to work.

“‘Who made San Marco Train mad?’ is an absorbing question. You did. You thought determination would beryllium nary repercussions aft you honked your horns and screamed your expletives? Think again, losers. Truth beryllium told, we’re not mad...we’re conscionable disappointed. Reap our whirlwind,” reads a tweet from March.

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More precocious The bid adjacent responded to the Jacksonville’s Sheriff’s Office’s informing of a stoppage during Florida-Georgia play past month.

“It’s the world’s largest outdoor blocktail enactment for a reason, losers,” the tweet reads.

While News4Jax has been watching the bid astir the timepiece for weeks, the stall got truthful atrocious 1 Sunday nighttime pedestrians adjacent hopped implicit the stopped behemoth.

“It’s ever an inopportune clip erstwhile you’re blocked,” DeYoung said. “It’s ne'er like, ‘Oh, I’ve got a casual Friday and I’m conscionable cruising astir to get food.’”

But the San Marco Train Twitter relationship has tally into a figurative roadblock: A measure has passed that lets the metropolis enactment into enactment an statement with the authorities to walk astir $1 cardinal successful national assistance wealth to physique further tracks astatine a section obstruction yard, with the extremity of reducing bid backups that halt postulation successful San Marco.

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DeYoung said helium inactive posts connected the relationship each present and again due to the fact that it’s fun.

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