Recent comments in /f/rva

OddWelcome2502 t1_j6hruo2 wrote

This is how we know you haven’t been here long. Bagel the beagle went missing a few years ago- maybe 2015? And his owner covered the city with posters….like diabetes test strip signs but with the poor sad Beagle face. Sadly, Bagel the Beagle was never found.

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FromTheIsle t1_j6hral3 wrote

The way that you get nova is by continuing to build more suburban sprawl. Unless you can convince no one to ever build another house again...you are going to want to start advocating for more middle density at the edges of the city and in the counties.

Personally I think it's far too late and several decades of building only single family homes and strip malls has already caught up to us. We aren't going to just be "like NOVA"...we are on the cusp of being absorbed into the megalopolis that stretches from Fredericksburg to DC to Boston.

All that NIMBY-ism delivered the opposite of what people wanted.

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WingedThing t1_j6hqsiy wrote

I nearly got killed right here a few weeks ago when a car ran a red light, that had been red for at least 5 seconds, at like 70 mph. Not to mention how nerve-wracking it is to cross Belvedere with your back to the one-way traffic from Cary, are people turning onto Belvedere going to stop for you, do they see you or are they on their phone? It's like Russian roulette, sometimes I feel like I should be walking backwards across the street so I can keep an eye on them.

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OMGEntitlement t1_j6hpw9g wrote

Reply to comment by OMGEntitlement in Just a heads up by that-fn-guy

All of the people downvoting me can meet me at the intersection where Thalheimer's, Price Club, and Best Products used to be, about half a mile as the crow flies from Parker Field, and we can discuss it.

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