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Got input on pedestrian, bicycling, or other transportation needs in the area?
The Church Hill Association has launched a Transportation Needs Assessment site to collect information about needs in the community.
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From the CHA:
In the winter of 2014, the Transportation Committee was initiated by the Church Hill Association. It took on the task of advocating for improvements in all aspects of transportation in Church Hill.
The Committee raised a series of issues to the city government including the need for: cross walks around our schools; installation of bike racks around the community and restrictions against parking behind CVS on Main and 25th Streets during the morning rush hour. The city was responsive to all of these requests.
They are currently studying a report created by the Committee on the poor condition of our historic staircases and the trash and vegetation around them. They will hopefully begin to address those concerns as well .
There has been so much progress from our efforts, additional requests from our members have begun to pour into the committee for consideration.
To address these continuing transportation concerns the committee has launched an effort to collect and prioritize requests for advocacy regarding transportation matters in a systematic matter. To do so, we have created a website site where CHA members and other community advocates can record their concerns. The committee will routinely review your thoughtful requests for action and advocate with the city to make appropriate changes.
Please go to this website:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/158q3….[…]
Please share this site with your friends and neighbors of Church Hill. You don’t need to be a member to post your requests for action.
sidewalk cleanup and leveling is a must for pedestrians. weed eradication, scraping and leveling where bricks are pushed up.
@1, you should go put that on the website that is referenced. I totally agree with you on the issue of sidewalk cleanup and leveling!
@2–I would except that I don’t live in Church Hill. I visit often. I can’t say exactly which blocks I’ve walked on and found problems as I described. The website asks for specific locations. Can someone else help out here and post my comment to the website, along with particulars of location?
Um … why is someone who by his/her own admission doesn’t live in Church Hill suggesting what needs to be done right here? Sorry, “visiting often” doesn’t count. Concentrate on your own neighborhood before criticizing mine.
With that being wrtten, I live in Church Hill but am from New Jersey, where it is illegal to park within 50 feet from a fire hydrant or an intersection. I’m aware that Church Hill was built before cars and I’m DEEPLY grateful that the asshole who owns/works for the duct-cleaning crew seems to have moved or found a better place to park that huge truck other than the downslope of 25th Street. Hi, REALLY HARD to make a right onto 25th when huge SUVs are lining the road and blocking one’s line of sight.
I felt the same way, Trish, when I saw that 33chicks didn’t live in CH. In retrospect, we have a lot of people coming to CH now for our restaurants and events and even they can see the horrible condition of our sidewalks. It pains me to see people dressed up and trying to make their way to venue to spend the $s here. Sections of E Marshall (where I live) are treacherous. I’ve complained, I’ve written and called, I’ve bullied, I’ve entered so many seeclickfixs that I’ve lost count. I’ve given up, quite frankly. It’s embarrassing that an outsider sees how bad it is. 🙁
I think 33chicks has a right to post if a frequent visitor; as Kathleen points out a@5, we have people coming here now for restaurants and other events (Irish Festival coming up end of March) as well as to just visit friends. I’d be glad to enter specific locations if that person could tell me where they were going when here. (The block and or street would help; I can go see the problem myself then; or the restaurant if that was the case).
@4 Trish, while I disagree about a visitor’s right to complain, the parking too close to an intersection is one of my pet peeves, too – not just that intersection but all the ones blocked by huge SUVs, or even smaller cars if the entire hood of the car is blocking the alley or other intersection.
As I mentioned in my previous post, E Marshall is in desperate need of some love. Businesses have come and invested lots of money but the City seems oblivious. WPA finally got their sidewalk replaced but it took the news media publicly embarrassing the City before that happened. E Marshall is the east/west bike/walk corridor in Church Hill and is also supposed to be the east/west ‘business hub’. In the intersections that I can see from my house… Chimborazo elementary has raised thousands of $s in donations and realized their dream to become the first IB elementary school in RVA. Who knows how many man hours have been spent enhancing the play ground and exterior of the school with gardens, but sidewalk east to west down Marshall is an overgrown, littered, pocked mess. The Blue Wheeler’s owners (owners of the business but NOT the building) spent a considerable amount of money to paint the building and put the glass back in the front of the store, replacing the plywood covered windows. There is new development by Urban Core coming in at the southwest corner of N 32nd and E Marshall – that particular section of sidewalk looks worse than a 3rd world country. Margaret Frued spent millions of $s rehabbing the old school building at 33rd and E Marshall and Urban Farmhouse joined her. They had their sidewalk, tree removal and alley rehab done by a private company and paid for it themselves. Lots of money coming in to CH (actually, in to Chimborazzo 🙂 in just few blocks but nothing coming in from the City. Meanwhile, in other news, Carytown’s perfectly good sidewalks are being ‘enhanced’.