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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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Something should definitely be done about that bridge, if for no other reason than the width clearance of the road. However, for the people that are scared of driving under it, just head down towards Bellair Market. Old Ivy Road is not a dead end road and coming and going from another direction is not that difficult.
Then again, I suppose that’s like asking people to hang up their cell phone so they can pay attention while driving. It’s amazing how much we value convenience over life sometimes.
Speaking as someone who works in an office on Old Ivy Road, there just plain aren’t any good options for getting in and out of there. The hairpin turn by Bellair Market to get onto the north end of Old Ivy isn’t much fun either, especially when you’re doing it just as a large truck is coming off the bypass in the other direction.
Back when folks drove vehicles with reasonable dimensions, the railroad underpass was actually not too horribly narrow. If it were in the UK people would zip through without a care in the world, as it offers more clearance than the typical village road there. But in a world of people still driving montster SUVs who can’t calculate their horizontal dimensions to a plus-minus factor of less than a yard in either direction, it’s obviously a source of terror.
Old Ivy is a pedestrian’s and cyclist’s nightmare as well, especially near the underpass. Farther up, a walker can at least get onto the grass verges, but the bypass area is another death trap. Even just crossing the street perpendicularly on foot, as I often do coming from North Grounds, can be challenging when drivers are doing the typical 45 mph around the curves rather than the posted speed limit.
It amazes me that almost none of the persons reacting to this article seem to get it. It’s not about the traversing in an out of Old Ivy Road. It’s about the dire, advancing degree of decay on the north side of the abutment’s overpass,foreboding a disaster if nothing is being done to remedy this situation.
The problem has been clearly stated in the Cville article with reference to the people responsible for the maintenance of the overpass. Please folks, open your eyes and put on your thinking cap!