Currently sitting on E Cary trying to make it to 25th St. wanting to claw my eyes out

I swear to God they just paved this stretch in the fall.

Good luck man. It definitely doesn’t help the same geniuses that thought this would be a good idea also have Cary Street closed between 15th and 18th.

Again, not a traffic planner, but if I didn’t know any better I would expect all the official documents associated with this to be written in crayon.

WFH and live off Main, so I had to apologize profusely for the sound of jackhammering during my meetings 😑

Seriously. I’m at home now trying to breathe deeply and rescue my mood after getting caught up in that.

Poor, poor you.

Yeah, it's a little nuts, and the scraping of the existing surface has taken a weirdly long time. But night paving costs more, because of overtime, the need for nighttime safety equipment, people parking in the lanes and having to get cars towed, etc etc. Better signage might mitigate some of the curfuffle, but that never seems to happen.

I've been taking Dock St (which has its own suck factor at rush hour), cutting through Church Hill or even taking 64 to Nine Mile to 31st to creep in the back way.

Yeah these are all good points. I suppose I would agree I’d rather the city do it cost-effectively than not, I would also say just more information about what is coming would be nice.

Can confirm Dock Street tends to be awful in general, gotta say the 64-Nine Mile-31st route sounds circuitous as hell, but I have been needing to go to Walmart… might do that tomorrow

At least VDoT will log onto Reddit and give us a heads up when something major is about to happen (amongst many other avenues). There's really nothing with dates on the Richmond DPU website, or on their social media of the work currently being done on Main Street, and the only reason I know that a project is currently ongoing in the Carver neighborhood is because the RTD had an article on it in late February...

My neighbor pointed out that many of the blocks they're digging up were freshly paved just recently. Classic Richmond. 🙃

I was stuck IN FRONT OF MY APARTMENT for 25 minutes lmao. A nightmare

VDOT doesn’t pave city streets. That’s all Richmond.

I know, I was saying why can’t they do it like VDOT

This reminds of how Chesterfield decided 8:20 on a school day was a good time to close the intersection leading into Bird High

Also consider the Leigh St bridge to Mosby to Princess Anne to 21st/E Clay to get from downtown into the side of CH.

There's so much street work happening lately, it's hard not to get snagged up somewhere.

I was just bitching about this. Yet another thing this city/VDOT can’t competently manage.

I was stuck right before 15th. No signage. No traffic cop. No direction. People were driving over curbs/on sidewalks to get out.

I think our traffic planners have room temperature IQs.

YUP. Took two hours to get to work today, fuck that noise.

There are more reasons than could be succinctly described here why Richmond can’t.

Mostly staffing, funding and decades of disinvestment. Same as many things in town.

Tend to agree, especially after hearing about how the traffic lights are being retimed. I don’t know if they have done the ones on Main yet downtown going into VCU but uhhh they could be done better.

And just in response to your other comment, I also ran into a dead end at 15th street, went right and took half an hour to get down to Dock and take a left. Absolute madhouse. Glad I have the opportunity to WFH the rest of this week, because I am not putting up with that again

I’m a Rideshare driver and was taking someone to the train station when I was there. Customer had to bail out early at 14th and walk that last block or miss her train.

I joined with the sidewalk drivers to make an illegal uturn and got the hell out. I’m basically a “Ned Flanders” of obeying traffic laws 99% of the time, but I was not fucking with that shit. I went straight home.

The years they spent working on Nine Mile between 25th and 64 was agonizing, but I was so glad it was over. Only for them to tear up the road in front of the cemetery for piping or some BS and now the road is arguably worse than before.

I hated having to gamble on if it was worth trying to take 64 to work or if it would be easier to make the early commitment to Williamsburg Rd.

That's one of the biggest problems I've had w/ roadwork downtown -- multiple routes get closed at the same time, so that it causes backups. Add that to the lanes closed for construction zones, and then Bank Street being closed, it really is miserable driving down there now!

Road paving has nothing to do with DPU. Unless it's paving restoration as apart of a utility project.

they paved goshen

PREACH!

It's so very on-brand that the new, sloppily-asphalted gash down Nine Mile is almost perfectly placed down the right side of your car so you get a nice rumble strip all the way to 64.

Haha my first reaction was “no don’t blow up the secret way! Lol” but there’s plenty of room, y’all come on…

Lol. Don't forget the super duper secret back way on the Richmond Henrico parkway (parallels the Cannon Creek Greenway bike path.) Pops you out at Brookland Park Boulevard and other destinations in Northside. Lately it's been way faster than 95 to Chamberlayne.

But really, WHERE'S MY FLYING CAR??!!