Charlottesville’s James Weissman has a cute story in today’s New York Times. #
Attention fellow geeks: The beCamp un-conference is being held at Fry’s Spring this weekend. It’s a free, self-organizing, two-day technology event. #
Dr. Barbara Haskins has filed to run for City Council as an independent. Charlottesville Tomorrow reports that the 26-year city resident is running because she was “outraged” with the last budget process, while Democratic Central reports that she’s a Democrat. Satyendra Huja, Holly Edwards and Mayor David Brown are the Democratic nominees for the three seats, and Democrat Peter Kleeman is also running as an independent.
Both Brian Wheeler and Lloyd Snook reported this on their respective blogs three days ago, but I’ve been on vacation, so I’m a little behind the times.
In today’s Daily Progress, Brian McNeill looks at traffic data and finds that high housing costs are putting enormous pressure on a few roads that lead to the surrounding counties. VDOT’s numbers on travel time (516k PDF), comparing 2005 to 2001, show that traffic from the west on 250 increased by 25%, traffic from the north on 29 increased by 33%, and traffic on 53 doubled from 3,300 to 6,600 trips per day.
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