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Big opportunity to improve bike safety:
-Safety Yield
-Proceed on Walk Signal
-Riding Two Abreast

Stop Designing Streets for the 'Average' Driver — Streetsblog USA ...and start designing them for real people who get around in many ways.

"Stop Designing Streets for the ‘Average’ Driver...and start designing them for real people who get around in many ways."
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Va. unemployment claims jump 71%. Those don't include nearly 700 looming Amazon layoffs. Unemployment claims rose sharply in Virginia last week, with more likely ahead as Amazon announces that it will lay off almost 700 employees at five grocery stores closing in Northern

"Virginia unemployment claims jump 71%. Those don't include nearly 700 looming Amazon layoffs."
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Number of Virginia immigrants 'self-deporting' multiplied by a factor of 17 In Carytown, a faded shoe and the word “alterations” still mark the facade of the former Mitchem’s Shoe Repair like a fading footprint.

“The really sad thing, that I’ve never seen in my entire career, is people with legal status are leaving. They’re scared, they don’t want to be here.”

Becoming undesirable and unlikeable to the world? This is not the America we should want. richmond.com/news/state-r... via @richmond.com

Virginia House votes to end Confederate tax breaks, license plates The United Daughters of the Confederacy’s headquarters on Arthur Ashe Boulevard is currently assessed at $4,766,000, which would mean its real estate tax would be $57,192.

"Va. House votes to end Confederate tax breaks, license plates"

Also, SB636: Remove Confederate monuments and memorials from Capitol Square, including Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Gov. William "Extra Billy" Smith, Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire.

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HB661: Traffic reg.; bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, etc., yielding at stop signs.

Thank you @vabike.bsky.social!

Commentary: US DOT's Misguided War on Bikeways — Streetsblog USA "European genes do not produce some kind of innate affinity for human-powered mobility — [and] people on any continent will use bike infrastructure if it is safe."

Commentary: @usdot.bsky.social's Misguided War on Bikeways

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I am an active transportation planner for PlanRVA in Richmond, Va. Updated the BikePedRVA map with a 0.5-mile bike lane we missed in the City of Richmond on Holly Spring Avenue. experience.arcgis.com/experience/7...

‘We’ve heard clearly that it is a priority for the community’: Bike lanes remain a sticking point on Mayo Bridge proposal The Fire Department said any physical barriers would keep cars from getting out of the way of fire trucks crossing the bridge.

"‘We’ve heard clearly that it is a priority for the community’: Bike lanes remain a sticking point on Mayo Bridge proposal"

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Finally joined Blue Sky. Still have my old Twitter account @RigganRVA, but might be here more often.

‘We’ve heard clearly that it is a priority for the community’: Bike lanes remain a sticking point on Mayo Bridge proposal The Fire Department said any physical barriers would keep cars from getting out of the way of fire trucks crossing the bridge.

"‘We’ve heard clearly that it is a priority for the community’: Bike lanes remain a sticking point on Mayo Bridge proposal"

Replacing Richmond’s 113-year-old Mayo Bridge and how to best include bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
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