Q: Cars are now blocked on a street in Neptune Beach. A small median and sign have been installed on South Street barring all traffic except “low speed vehicles and bicycles.”

The street, at the intersection of 5th Street, blocks vehicles on one end and allows only golf carts and bicycles to pass, writes Jacksonville Today reader Kathy H.

“I believe the people who live on that street requested it,” Kathy says.

“I want to know how a public street can be blocked off and if it’s even legal.”

A: The changes on South Street are legal, the city says. They’re called a “half closure,” says Neptune Beach Parks and Sustainability Director Colin Moore.

“Half closures create one-way streets by blocking travel in only one direction for a short section of the roadway,” Moore says in an email. “Half

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