""Try as I might, I can't really figure out if you will vote to build a series of bypasses around and through Charlottesville. I understand that VDOT and Albemarle are partners in planning, but the responsibility for creating an urban corridor is ours. To properly route UVA, Hwy 29 and suburban commuter traffic, we simply have to build new routes, or dramatically enlarge existing ones. I am a lifelong Democrat, and I'm advocating that we quit sticking our heads in the sand and recognize that we have to make some hard decisions about how we want Charlottesville to function in the presence of 40,000 commuters. I know some neighborhoods will suffer. Denying that proactive transportation planning and implementation are achievable strikes me as cowardice of the worst kind. Please, support efforts to build an infrastructure that is efficient, that gets the cars out of residential neighborhoods unless that is where they want to be. If we are done growing as a city, maybe we can get away with doing the barest minimum, like we are right now. I can assure you that Albemarle county has an easy time of pushing all its suburban developement into the ring around Charlottesville. Why? Because, doing so enables them to maintain quality county attributes. Seems logical that we attempt to maintain our "Charlottesvilleness.""
Paul F. Risberg | April 11, 2005

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Lyndele von Schill | April 11, 2005

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