JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It’s been nearly a decade since an Arlington man was hit by a car and killed while walking home on University Boulevard North.

Friday, that man’s family was calling for safety measures to be put in place on the road where he was killed. 

In March 2016, John Feaster was walking home from a nearby bar when he was struck by a car at a busy Jacksonville intersection.

The 63-year-old father and husband was walking home from the Broken Spoke, a bar on University Boulevard, when he was struck and killed by a driver, less than a mile from where he lived on Gable Lane.

It’s an area his son, Raymond, still has to pass everyday.

“He was a kind sweet man. He would always give homeless people food. He was a family man,” said Raymond Feaster. “It hurts. I tap the pole where he got hit every time, I walk by and I say ‘dad, I love you. Mom and Keri are taken care of.’”

“A little boy got killed a couple months after my father passed and just recently somebody got hit trying to cross the street at Popeyes,” he said.

The city’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator told First Coast News that the city and the North Florida transportation planning organization have launched a University Boulevard corridor study and are working on safety improvements. 

The city and other agencies are working closely together to make this area safer for all drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians.

It’s something the Feaster family would like to see get done, so no other families are in their shoes.

“I walk to my job every day and I’m scared for my life, because I don’t know if I’m going to be the next one hit,” Raymond Feaster said. “We just need to be watching out for pedestrians and make the world safer for everybody.”

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority is also in the design phase for a complete safety streets project for sections of University.