From part four of Charlottesville Tomorrow’s excellent series on traffic – Scenic 250 formed as a grassroots organization in 1997 to protect the rural character of the highway. … VDOT’s final report in January 2000 recommended the widening of 250 west to four lanes between the US 29/250 Bypass near the Bellair neighborhood all the way to the railroad trestle crossing the Mechums River. … Thomas , the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution in May 2000 that committed the county to protecting the road as a two-lane scenic corridor all the way west to the county line. … However, the section from Miller School Road to the Mechums River is up 48 percent over the same period, and from there to Ivy it has increased 41 percent.
Jarmans Gap Improvement Cut?
From Charlottesville Tomorrow : The Commonwealth Transportation Board will vote this week on ways to deal with a $851.5 shortfall in VDOT’s Six-Year Plan. Among the cuts is nearly $7 million for Jarmans Gap Road, a key infrastructure project supporting the Crozet Master Plan , adopted in 2004. The project currently has an advertisement date of January 2011, but that is likely to change if the cuts are approved. Read the whole story and get involved.
Walk to School Day in Crozet – Friday 20 November 2009
As far as I know, this is only for Crozet Elementary, but why not expand it to all schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle? If you’re in Old Trail, stop by Trailside Coffee on the way to Brownsville, Henley or Western Albemarle. If you’re in Downtown Crozet, stop by the Crozet Mudhouse. Make a good time of it!
Amtrak in Charlottesville – One Person’s Experience
Thank you to Stephen Goadhouse for this guest post: Charlottesville now has an affordable option for traveling by train to Washington, DC. It is a new route on the Amtrak Northeast Regional service. After my first experience with the Northeast Regional, I highly recommend it …
Streetscape Concerns in Crozet
Perfection is the enemy of the good. Gustave Flaubert French realist novelist (1821 – 1880) The Daily Progress has a good article about the stalling of the Streetscape project. Please read the whole thing. “We don’t want the charm of downtown to die away,” Trigo …
A Crozet Commuter Train?
, Albemarle County Supervisor Ann Mallek (White Hall) sought the full Board’s support for a feasibility study for daily commuter service from Crozet to Charlottesville.
… In a poll on RealCrozetVA last year, nearly 90% of respondents said that they would be willing to use rail service from Crozet to Charlottesville .
Take the JAUNT Crozet Bus Service Survey
JAUNT would like to hear about your transit needs in order to create a bus schedule and route that would satisfy as many Crozet citizens as possible. This is the perfect time to let JAUNT know what you would require in a bus service for use on a regular basis.
JAUNT is for Everybody
And they have some marketing to do to get that message across to the public. In short, as Charlottesville Tomorrow reports – if we want (bus) transit to and from Crozet, we have to ask and we have to use it.
A comment on JAUNT in Crozet
I spoke with (someone) at Jaunt who advised that all commuter service between Crozet-Cville is door-to-door upon request, and they have no way of knowing how long any particular route would take on any given day.
…I would definitely consider using the service if it would just be one pick-up in Crozet (say at Bank of America parking lot which is a designated park & ride) to a stop (or two) in Cville [downtown mall—UVA/Corner?].
Biking around Crozet
I’m embarking on a shift in how I get around. and I’m hoping to demonstrate the relative ease of biking around Crozet. Parkside Village to 1077 Amber Ridge Find more Bike Rides in Crozet, Virginia Riding to the farmers’s market on Saturday mornings, to Great Valu for a few groceries, to the drop-off point to pick up my weekly CSA share , over to Old Trail for meetings, to the BP to pick up the Crozet Gazette , to the Pool , Mint Springs Park , to Highlands to show a house that I’m marketing …