Where are the College Bubble Blogs? Why is the same amount of vitriol not conveyed upon higher education institutions?
The Higher Education Bubble: It’s About to Burst
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No grade-separated interchanges at 29 and Rio:
“I think to be intellectually honest we have to say all the traffic studies indicate that we should put the interchanges in,” Boyd said. “But I think I’d rather simply say at this time there’s no funding and no intent to do it.”
Two clichés come to mind:
- where there’s a will, there’s a way
- perfection is the enemy of progress
People move to the Charlottesville-Albemarle region because we don’t have Northern Virginia traffic and congestion; it’s one of the reasons Charlottesville is one of the 10 most livable college towns. Without progress on our transportation and infrastructure, this quality of life will decline, and we will all suffer the effects. Our “leaders” need to determine what they want our area to be in 25 years and find a way to act on this vision.
The transportation section of Albemarle County’s Places29 Master Plan has been slimmed down to include only projects that have a reasonable chance of being constructed within its first five years. That means county staff will not perform any design work for a grade-separated interchange at the intersection of U.S. 29 and Rio Road.
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With all the lists that Charlottesville* gets put on, I think I like this one the most. (Thanks to the anonymous reader for pointing this out to me!)
We’re #9, in fact.
The Atlantic notes: (bolding mine)
Last Friday, my list of America’s Brainiest Cities ran over at The Daily Beast. Boulder topped the list, which comprised a mix of larger knowledge-intensive metros like Washington, D.C., Boston, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Austin, and Seattle, and college towns like Ithaca, Charlottesville, Madison, Iowa City, and Durham, North Carolina, among others.
* “Charlottesville” may mean “Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene” but in this case may in fact mean “The City of Charlottesville.”
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