Well if we're doing this, should we tell people about Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast? RHLSTP

POPADOMS OR BREAD!?

I know this is culturally a bit British for most Americans but it is important to shout.

If you're charging at home, very unlikely. How many miles per day / week are you currently driving?

I moved here 10 years ago and this has been part of the annual Circle of Life in RVA.

1. Someone asks if Shamrock is good.
2. 99.9% of posters say it's terrible.
3. 0.1% say 'brah, it's great, aren't you Irish enough'
4. It takes place.
5. The community united with 100% of posts saying it was shite and a rip off.
6. We start bitching about the upcoming festivals.
7. It's March again!

Not OSB. They are not the same thing.

Loadspreading would give you peace of mind without structurally altering the floor or ripping it up. Rather than 2 x 12, you might look at ripping some sheets of ply to 24" strips and putting them down. Since you want to spread the load wider, going up from 12" would give better results. 12" would probably work, but spreading is spreading and wider is better.

That's a shit get-out. She does as well as anyone who isn't a Hanover R can do on a board of Hanover Rs.

Faye Prichard. Ashland district Supervisor. First D to serve on the BoS in 30 years.

I'm going on Board of Supervisors representation here. Also, higher education! For Hanover it's as close to liberal as it gets!

Ashland is pretty much the liberal holdout in Hanover.

Then drive to the prevailing road conditions, wait for sufficient space to make a safe maneuver, overtake giving 3ft, enjoy the warm feeling of being a safe and considerate road user. So what if there's a bike path near there!

It pools because it can't be absorbed into the ground and / or or can't flow anywhere else. You probably have very clayey soil since that is prevalent around here. Beyond that, your yard is either a low point, has nowhere to flow to, or both. Is everywhere around you a bit higher? Then you have the low point. If you can see somewhere lower, you might be able to help the water move there.

I want a safer sustainable Richmond but it will take an "all of the above" approach and decades to achieve. I've helped push sustainable transportation in several places and it takes everything to move the needle. There is no one panacea.

Ghent has a low emissions zone where cars that meet requirements are permitted. Heidelberg the same. Nuremberg the same. Barcelona allows cars, just not through traffic in certain blocks. Venice. Well, it's kinda waterlogged and a tourist attraction in a swamp.

If you just copy and paste a list from Wikipedia you don't usually get a thorough answer. All of those cities have completely different characteristics to Richmond, and none of them are car free.

Lower speed school zones. Same as K12 schools have in the burbs. Do the same around colleges. Lower speeds and visual traffic calming measures. Narrow the lanes with striping, get rid of 2+ lane one way streets.

It's part of the solution, not the only way. The gap between where Richmond is now to "viable city with no private vehicles" is vast to not possible. I've not seen a city in the world where private vehicles are not present. Controlled yes, banned no. SUV and lifted truck owners are in the burbs, not the $400k condos downtown.

Just get them from Walmart. Sheesh.

Some people seem to want brand new houses built near entirely car-centric retail. I suspect they are too busy on Nextdoor to post on Reddit.

Also, a lot of people like to use the garage as additional space.
I do agree on the best way to improve the room is to insulate between the garage and the room, but that's a much bigger job.
I have my garage door insulated to also reduce heat gain in the summer. The door is South facing so heats up really badly in the summer. Some people just like the garage to be more usable space year round, so insulating the door may well be useful for lots of reasons.

There probably is. Most FROG (finished room over garage) are badly designed and built. They don't usually have very good insulation. Therefore, having better insulation and airtightness in the garage pays back.

You can get specific poly insulation for garage doors. It's cheap and light. Shop around for something designed for the job rather than a DIY bodge which it sounds like you have.

I used to visit a food court in Oriental City, a shopping mall for the Oriental communities in North London. The food court had no chains, no brands, just 20+ family owned businesses all doing their thing, turning out their specialities at reasonable prices. They leased space from the mall owners and it was the best, busiest most diverse place I've ever eaten. Even the likes of Borough Market in London hasn't got the breadth this place had. Or the Richmond model, where a restaurant business owns the hall and fills it with their "not quite" concepts with little variation and no competition.

Maybe being owned by people who own restaurants is not the best answer.

I'm just highlighting that the founding fathers didn't do shit for anyone who wasn't just like them.

Huh? You know the old wealthy white men who established America set it all up to retain what they had, right? Not sure where pity comes into this. It's what happened.

The politically appointed chumps have had a big year. The teachers are mostly fantastic and do their job despite political shenanigans and not because of them.