5th Street/Avon Road coming soon?

Why do I have a hard time believing that many of these projects will actually make it to the construction phase? Could it be the history the county has on road projects? or maybe its the current budget crisis in Richmond?

I think if they end up linking fifth st and Avon Street I think it will be via Rt 20 south (Where Avon St extended dumps out) Which will make it useless for most people that would like to see a link up because right now they can just as easily use 64 to 20 and backtrack a bit.

I think it might be more reasonable connecting those two areas to give Avon St Extended it’s own off ramp from I-64. All you’d have to do would be to widen the road/bridge a little bit and put in traffic lights.

On a side note: In looking at a map in relation to this post I saw that The street the jail is on is called “Peregory Ln”. What do you want to bet whomever named the street just mis-spelled “purgatory?”

If private developers build roads with private money, how long before they figure out that they are THEIR roads and start charging tolls as if they were a real private enterprise?

My biggest issues with the county and city are the relentless studies and meetings to conclude what an average driver in Charlottesville could tell you. I mean I understand the point of a few studies to make sure money is being spent right, but for god sakes at some point you need to start laying pavement. It has taken 17 years for the county to figure out it doesn’t want a Western Bypass. This diverted tons of resources from other projects and cities that were ready to act. It has taken 30+ years for construction on the parkway to start*(pending). Now the county is spending tons of money on studies to figure out if 29 needs to be widened to Greene and if 250 needs to be widened to Fluvanna. Now ask yourself, what would the average driver say about the projects? Now ask, what will the studies conclude? See if there is any correlation.

The permalink difference stems from there being no actual standard for “permanent” links. Any unique attribute can be used. Viable permalinks for individual elements on a website (articles, comments, photographs, applicants…whatever) could include the exact date and time that it was posted, a randomly-generated alphanumeric string, the first few words of the content in question, an integer advanced by 1, or just about anything else you can think of. All of these are in use on different sites, and all work well for different reasons.

That said, it’s not the technical viability of permalinks that’s particularly interesting, it’s the human-usefulness. In the past few years it has become clear to website developers that permalinks must be human-readable. The standard that developed among blog software is fast emerging as the overall standard:

example.com/yyyy/mm/dd/content-slug/

Better still if that URL can be hacked — removing the slug should yield a page that lists all content for that day. Removing the day, too, should yield all content for the month. And so on.

C-Ville Weekly’s URL structure has been created to be convenient for the site developers, by using an integer so long that there is no chance that they’ll run out of numbers. (That assumes that C-Ville will never publish more than ten quadrillion articles. I would have gone with a smaller number of digits, myself.) The website categories, perhaps demonstrating some restraint, are limited to one quadrillion. The combination of the two, however, is where things get powerful: by cleverly distributing their articles within all categories, they can have a hair under one decillion articles.

If they write one article each second, they’ll run out of numbers in 10^25 years, or way the hell longer than the universe has existed thus far. Now that’s planning ahead.

I’m home sick. I have nothing else to do. What can I say?