The city of Charlottesville is seeking input from Locust Avenue residents on the next steps for traffic calming on the busy street. In the summer of 2016, crews painted new lines on the road to reduce the width of traffic lanes and to simulate a physical separation between vehicles and bikes on one side of […]
Charlottesville has no plans to increase the speed limits on several busy roads, despite recommendations from the city’s new traffic engineer that the posted limits on some streets are too low. Traffic engineer Rashad M. Hanbali counted traffic volumes at several locations across the city and concluded that limits on Brandywine Drive, Elliott Avenue, Greenbrier […]
A retired University of Virginia computer science professor who has been studying vehicle movements on Locust Avenue has claimed that a low-cost traffic calming initiative has so far been ineffective in slowing down motorists. “I had an inkling very early on that this kind of lane narrowing was not going to work,” said Paul Reynolds. […]
A computer scientist who has developed software to track vehicle speeds on Charlottesville streets is now gathering data from two more locations and wants city officials to take notice. “The city has a problem with speeding, and the question is, how do you control it?” said Paul Reynolds, a professor emeritus at the University of […]
Since November, Paul Reynolds has captured the speed of nearly 30,000 vehicles that have traveled past his Locust Avenue home to see how many have exceeded the 25 mph limit. “You’ll find that almost 85 percent of the cars going by are violators,” Reynolds said. Reynolds, who spent many years on the faculty of the […]
Charlottesville’s Martha Jefferson Neighborhood Association has been asking for ways to slow down motorists on the community’s streets. “Right now, Locust Avenue is a Berlin Wall for pedestrians, especially for younger pedestrians, and we want to encourage people to cross [the street],” said Eberhard Jehle. City planners recently held a workshop with residents to receive […]
Charlottesville’s City Council has approved a special-use permit that will allow a five-story structure with 56 residential units to be built at 925 E. Market St. One councilor voted against the project because she said it did not go far enough to improve the city’s network of sidewalks. “It’s very disappointing that there are two […]
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