Posted by Thor on October 27th, 2008
The Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation sponsored a bike ride across Charlottesville to raise awareness about alternative, greener modes of transportation. Despite the poor representation of only 15 people, I know plenty of you bike to work, take public transportation or carpool. Now that gas prices have come way down from their astronomical highs, I wonder if people still have the same desire to do all those greener transportation things.
Do declining gas prices make you less likely to carpool, bike or take public transportation?
Oh and make sure you check out the ACCT blog, they have lots of cool stuff on there.
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Posted by Thor on July 16th, 2008
Chooo-Chooo!
The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) released the draft of its statewide rail plan. DRPT put together the plan to deal with the growing needs of Virginia transportation.
Specifically, the projects identified in the plan represent $4.9 billion in rail investments which could remove 7.3 million cars and trucks from Virginia highways and more than 1.2 million tons of carbon emissions. The projects are: Shortline Railroad, Port of Hampton Road, Passenger Rail initiatives and High- Speed Rail initiatives. See the fact sheet for a brief overview of the projects.
It looks like there wasn’t anything mentioned for Charlottesville improvements. 
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Posted by belmont yo on April 7th, 2008
I have never been one to shy away from an afternoon of what I have come to call recreational anthropology, and as such, I have never really minded the occasional trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Truth be told, whatever complaints folks have about the VA DMV, they pale in comparison to the experience when faced with it in a city such as San Francisco. A trip to the DMV out there requires bring provisions, several books of language translation, and perhaps a Kafka novel or two to stave off the inevitable ego disintegration and complete loss of humanity. When I first moved here and went to obtain my Virginia driver’s license, I was asked a few simple questions, winced as they cut my CA license in half, and I was on my way in under an hour. Along with the $5 postage paid parking tickets ($7 all day in the garage over there vs. $5 in the loading zone right here? has anyone thought this through?) it was one of the “quaint” things about my new town that I adored. Of course this was a pre 9/11 DMV, and after it was found that a bunch of the hijackers had got their cards from VA DMV, the state decided to upgrade their procedures to “infuriating”.
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