Creating raised pedestrian crosswalks around campus would have the benefit of slowing cars down while also making pedestrians more visible. Some flashing pedestrian lights are sorely needed around VCU. Narrowing Cary and Main's lanes by painting a bike lane doesn't seem a bad idea either, and would be pretty cheap (narrower lanes promote cars to slow down).

That being said, I drive around downtown a LOT as an Uber and have witnessed students walking or running directly into the street without looking, not using a crosswalk, having their earphones in, checking their phones, etc. I'm not blaming anyone here, but it seems to me that there's a bad mix of improper pedestrian safety measures by the city AND a college campus that brings in a large amount of students from NOVA's sprawling suburbs who just don't have the experience of living in an urban/pedestrian environment. It isn't anyone's "fault" necessarily, it's American car culture rearing its ugly head.

During my VCU orientation there was nothing said about getting around campus safely, which I found odd. It wouldn't be the worst idea to have a mandatory orientation on what it means to be a pedestrian on campus.

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aldi

Bad form Smee, Bad form.

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Def Aldi

What a match! Almost pulled it off. Start was rough, but Wrexham hung in there and had it won until the last couple minutes. On to the replay.

Why don’t these people realize no one really voted for Biden. They voted to get the orange stain out of office. Biden couldn’t have beaten anyone running against him…unless they were Trump.

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The response I got about traffic volumes was that Cumberland could be used instead. Granted this discourse is limited to r/VCU and Twitter so this is likely not a majority opinion. Just like the tweet that blamed traffic engineers for making it possible for people to drive fast and distracted.

I do recognize that as a car driver, we automatically default to inconveniencing autos least. In a perfect world we'd all be biking. I know I'm terrified of riding a bike though, but might do it in a place where bikes and peds were favored over cars.

Aldi

The average weekday traffic on that stretch of Main is 17,000 vehicles, and it’s 35,000 on Cary (which is 10,000 more vehicles per day than 195 going east). Closing off Main to commuters and rerouting them via a two-way Cary would create a lot of problems. I agree something has to be done, but that is not the solution.

Richmond and VCU need to really work together on traffic measures to make it safer for students. I suggest that they communicate with other college towns that successfully make it safer to travel around their campuses and find what infrastructure and measures work best for the VCU area. I think they can learn a lot from those who have a good thing going for pedestrians and cyclists.

Nice work!

He actively helped commit the crime even if he didn’t pull the trigger.

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Not only is it chaotic, I got my credit card skimmed at one of the tanks pre-COVID. I now avoid that place like the plague.

You can have all the “community outreach” you want, but this mostly comes down to poor parenting and environment. When you have children growing up in concentrated poverty where their role models are gang members and drug dealers, mom and dad aren’t around, no one to teach coping skills, impulse control, anger management, nothing will change.

Lidl and Aldi

It is pretty wild there are no pedestrian bridges really like there is most other urban campuses.

I've literally never gone past when they were open, until your post I didn't know that they were EVER open.

Did y’all never learn about using context clues?

Airport Wawa gets wild too

Some students want Main to be closed to traffic during the day. Not sure how that impacts delivery drivers, commuters and access to Altria. Could make sense if we made Cary two way which may reduce speeding there. Two birds kind of thing. I expect the City won't do anything and cops will continue to ignore speeders and people on phones.

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