Transportation Town Hall on Monday
If you would like more bike lanes or rail service or other transportation concerns, take the time to tell some of the people whose voices matter (not that ours don't - they just have bigger and better targeted microphones). Town meeting on transportation with Delegate…
Albemarle County might minimize transparent government
Brilliant - save money by limiting public access to what our government is doing. Albemarle County residents could soon face another hurdle toward holding their Supervisors accountable. In what's being billed as an efficiency move, the six member governing body will consider changing the record…
Government’s not going to do it – so why not Google?
I went to a meeting last week in Old Trail, a new urbanist development in Crozet, Virginia. It took me about ten minutes to ride my bike. What if Google, in addition to driving times, added a "biking" or "estimated walking" time, and highlighted appropriate…
Could this be part of the future of transportation?
Just wondering if this could work in the Charlottesville/Central Virginia area. I still think that an implementation of this type of system is among the best I've seen.
Anyone in the Charlottesville media want to localize this story?
This story from Bacon's Rebellion - The Transportation Debate and the Unreported Land Use Revolution, is screaming to be localized and told about how Charlottesville/Albemarle will be affected. The land use provisions of (HB 3202) seem to be holding up better than the road-funding pieces,…
Bike Week in Charlottesville
Check it out at ACCT's site. Ride a bike on one errand every other day; start somewhere! (gas prices are absolutely impacting ever facet of our lives - real estate, too) "Many people did the 'drive to qualify,' " looking in farther-out suburbs to find…
What if the Meadowcreek Parkway didn’t exist?
It's just a question. There have been countless (at least a few thousand) stories written about the Meadowcreek Parkway over the years. What if the community was able to think of a brand-new transportation solution, not bound by the vestiges of 40-year-old (plus) thinking? Would…
The Solution to Sprawl
Higher gas prices. From NPR (thanks to C-Ville), featuring a friend and fellow blogger, Danilo Bogdanovic: Stiff says home buyers' attitudes have changed. The old rule was, "Drive 'til you qualify" - meaning they should go out from the city until they could get what…
Transparent politics in Virginia
Politics, as distasteful and unsavory as they may seem sometimes, matter in our lives. (Darn it) Virginia is lucky and privileged to have access to some fantastic resources for investigating local and state-wide politics and politicians. Yesterday, the Virginia Public Access Project just got even…
That’s right – raise taxes
Albemarle County's BoS decided to advertise the new mil rate of .71 cents per $100 of assessed property value. Two years ago it was .74, last year it was .68 and now they want to raise it again. We're all doing with less money, and…