Traffic circles are pretty good for a safe and efficient flow of cars (if they know how to use it) but they’re not really great for pedestrians. With a constant flow of car and bus traffic, there’s not really any chance for pedestrians to cross. Other than that I think it’s a pretty great idea!

Has always been the most restaurant of Carytown

Get ready for a list:

• Major bus corridors to be replaced by BRT
• sidewalks everywhere
• protected bike lanes connecting a safe bike network, separate from major roads like Hull or Broad, but paralleling them on oversized local streets.
• High Speed Rail. Or just better/more frequent rail in general, connecting us to the cities we’re currently connected to, but also to Charlottesville and west from there.
• pedestrian bridge at Rockett’s Landing, another around downtown since T Pott gets soooooo crowded when the weather is nice and it takes forever to cross. And another around the nickel bridge. And the hanging bridge to Belle Isle to be the expanded, so that it’s less crowded and can be used as a path connecting Southside to north side
• more parks in Southside
• downtown parking lots to be replaced with something useful
• city stadium to be renovated
• the Fall Line Trail to be magically and suddenly done
• the redevelopment of Mayo’s Island into a park to be magically done
• the Bridge Park RVA project to be done magically
• Casino (jk fuck no)
• The James Monroe Building to be demolished and turned into a transit center, where all buses meet including stuff like greyhound, as well as connecting to Main Street station.
• the grave site at Lumpkins jail to be turned into a museum commemorating the people buried there
• more housing, duh. Personally would like more of the urban form like that in the fan.

Yeah this is all I think about.

For new large developments this is easier, but unfortunately retroactively applying this to old developments can be prohibitively expensive. Like millions of dollars for short distances. And older homes aren’t equipped to receive electricity from underground.

I want this to be a reality, but the cost is massive.

Rip Southside, again

Article says it’s still being investigated.

Go for a relaxing stroll across Mayo Bridge during rush hour. Gets the adrenaline pumping

Have a few bevs, sign up for the military, drive down to a nearby fort, get in a tank. Profit.

FUCK I forgot that this was today >:( Hope someone got some good footage

Dude, where’s my car?!

The whole city really, it’s a dog shit anywhere world out there

I have been car free my entire time in RVA, which hasn’t been that long, but I’ve been dedicated to it. Most other car free people are northside it seems but I manage from Southside. The bus is generally good enough, never perfect, but it does enough.

Biking is generally good here on certain routes, but I’ve had a few encounters with drivers who are extremely hostile or have 0 clue what a bike is and how a bikes signals. Fortunately they’re few and far between, and avoiding busy roads makes it a lot easier.

Getting groceries is difficult, especially in my location, so I had to give up and just get all my groceries delivered.

The biggest issue is just that every once in a while I have to get somewhere with a car. Ubering has been fine mostly, but occasionally I just get screwed over by not having a car. It doesn’t happen enough to justify buying a car, however.

Getting out of the city is harder, the train to DC or tidewater is good, but that’s about as far as you can get.

But I encourage you to try! I know a lot of people in RVA that are one car households, low-car or completely car free. It’s a lifestyle all of us seem to like and it saves so. much. money.