Time to brush up on bunny hops

My neighbor pointed out that many of the blocks they're digging up were freshly paved just recently. Classic Richmond. 🙃

In front of the old RTD building IIRC.

Get on your bikes and ride!

Our rights being eroded

Cool and I'll counter with Richmond's low income housing projects of the past that have failed and all have begun to be replaced with houses not apartments because it has better outcomes.

Lol and they just make it another club

At least VDoT will log onto Reddit and give us a heads up when something major is about to happen (amongst many other avenues). There's really nothing with dates on the Richmond DPU website, or on their social media of the work currently being done on Main Street, and the only reason I know that a project is currently ongoing in the Carver neighborhood is because the RTD had an article on it in late February...

Oh, awesome! I had been getting so sad walking by and seeing the space getting cleaned out. Glad to know it won’t be empty long.

Yeah these are all good points. I suppose I would agree I’d rather the city do it cost-effectively than not, I would also say just more information about what is coming would be nice.

Can confirm Dock Street tends to be awful in general, gotta say the 64-Nine Mile-31st route sounds circuitous as hell, but I have been needing to go to Walmart… might do that tomorrow

Yeah, it's a little nuts, and the scraping of the existing surface has taken a weirdly long time. But night paving costs more, because of overtime, the need for nighttime safety equipment, people parking in the lanes and having to get cars towed, etc etc. Better signage might mitigate some of the curfuffle, but that never seems to happen.

I've been taking Dock St (which has its own suck factor at rush hour), cutting through Church Hill or even taking 64 to Nine Mile to 31st to creep in the back way.

The increases in those neighborhoods is more meaningful to those who live there because they’re already low income and disproportionately more rent burdened. And because most of the area around there is zoned for single family homes(when not industrial) developing anything other than that (even just low rise apartments or other lower cost housing) is more expensive for the private sector because they would have to go through a long and expensive variance process, getting neighborhood feedback, etc.

part of the reason there hasn’t been expansion of trailer parks is because of our zoning as well.

Finally as someone else said, expanding supply of “market rate” housing in wealthier areas keeps rents from rising elsewhere even in low income communities https://research.upjohn.org/up_workingpapers/307/

Poor, poor you.

Seriously. I’m at home now trying to breathe deeply and rescue my mood after getting caught up in that.

I can't remember if I said this to you before, but I don't hold a home kitchen to the same standards as a commercial volume kitchen. The commercial kitchen by nature of it's volume has a higher likelihood of foodborne illnesses and so extra precaution must be taken.

At home, just like u/fusion260, my cats get on the counter and it's no big deal after a Lysol/Clorox wipedown. at least we actually wipedown our counters, which is more than I can say for Hobnob.

WFH and live off Main, so I had to apologize profusely for the sound of jackhammering during my meetings 😑

I had thought they were amazing the first time I went and had the Waterzooi, then I realized that everything else on the menu just paled in comparison. Shame, I would have liked to try it again, but I’m planning on replicating it at home myself.

Good luck man. It definitely doesn’t help the same geniuses that thought this would be a good idea also have Cary Street closed between 15th and 18th.

Again, not a traffic planner, but if I didn’t know any better I would expect all the official documents associated with this to be written in crayon.

I swear to God they just paved this stretch in the fall.

Currently sitting on E Cary trying to make it to 25th St. wanting to claw my eyes out

You probably run a dog fighting ring, too.

Even if it doesn’t lower the costs in less expensive areas having more options in “more desirable locations” will prevent the wealthy from displacing lower income people in the less wealthy ones. That seems like a win in and of itself.

I agree with you that we should have far more development in the underdeveloped areas as well however.

I know where you live and I know how to drop off delicious leftover food that has been kept in the danger zone for a suspicious (but still safe) amount of time!

Except the numbers show that rents haven't spiked as much near Richmond Highway and other lower income places. They're up, but not like $1600/month for a single loft. You can still rent a whole house for less than that in many areas. We also haven't seen the trailer parks resurface or expand like they did in the 70s.