Wyatt Gordon
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Richmond, VA, United States
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Electric rail investment is coming to the Mid-Atlantic. Is Virginia prepared?
Amtrak, North Carolina Railroad, and the Biden Administration are investing in new electric options for the Northeast Corridor and beyond. How ready is Virginia to take advantage of these advances? → Read More
Richmond’s long-overlooked Southside is growing rapidly, but can it grow equitably?
Richmond is growing rapidly and has more development in progress and planned. Will the city expand equitably? → Read More
Why should it cost $2.5 million to lower the speed limit 5 mph in Richmond?
When a bill to lower speed limits to 20 mph across the city of Richmond, Va. passed in 2022, officials stated the new limit would have to be posted on every block, with a price tag the city couldn’t afford. For now, Richmonders are stuck with higher speeds. → Read More
The school bus of the future isn’t a physical bus
Arlington and Richmond students join their fellow scholars, caregivers, and school staff around the country who benefit from walking and biking school buses. → Read More
Will Richmond’s plan to remove mandatory parking minimums pass?
The City of Richmond could soon join a lengthening list of localities no longer telling business owners and developers how much parking their properties must provide. @yitgordon reports: → Read More
Half of Richmond’s scooter providers have left town this year. What does that mean for micromobility in the city?
While some scooter providers have stepped away, the others remaining, as well as new providers, are ready and willing to step in, with enhanced guidance from city leaders on how to best serve riders. → Read More
A proposed Richmond area “agrihood” pairs affordable housing and urban agriculture
Virginia is one step closer to its first-ever “agrihood”. Happily Natural, Girls for Change, and the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) have won a US Department of Agriculture planning grant to develop a nine-acre lot in the Chesterfield neighborhood of Bensley, just south of the Richmond city line. → Read More
Why is one of Richmond’s hottest neighborhoods missing so many sidewalks?
Scott’s Addition sells itself as a top destination overflowing with alcoholic amenities such as breweries, cideries, and distilleries. But there is one critical component of an urban neighborhood that the corridor lacks: sidewalks. → Read More
How a budget amendment could help lay down tracks for a Shenandoah Valley rail trail
When Del. Tony Wilt, R-Rockingham, introduced a budget amendment funding a study on creating a new 43-mile long rail trail in the Shenandoah Valley, the odds of the proposal making it into the final budget for the governor to sign looked slim. However, thanks to the efforts of his regional ally, Sen. Emmet Hanger, R-Augusta, the measure made it into the Senate’s budget to be adopted by the two… → Read More
Central Virginia is planning a 41-mile trail from Ashland to Petersburg
When the Virginia Capital Trail was first proposed back in 1999, critics derided the idea of the 51.7-mile multi-use path as overly-ambitious and too expensive. Today, the east-west trail connecting Virginia’s first capital of Jamestown with the modern seat of government, Richmond, faces concerns about overcrowding, and there’s now a sibling trail in the pipeline. → Read More
Richmond inches toward opening its streets
Two months after cities across the globe began making more space for people to safely walk and bike, could Richmond finally be on the verge of piloting its own slow streets program? → Read More
“Polite and persistent” organizers champion better bus service in Newport News
Public transportation in Virginia’s fifth largest city faces a broad set of challenges — many representative of the region as a whole but some unique to the northernmost of the “Seven Cities.” → Read More
Why is one of Richmond’s hottest neighborhoods missing so many sidewalks?
Scott’s Addition sells itself as a top destination overflowing with alcoholic amenities such as breweries, cideries, and distilleries. But there is one critical component of an urban neighborhood that the corridor lacks: sidewalks. → Read More
A new rail authority in Virginia could revolutionize connections for riders throughout the state
After decades of railroad corporations’ stranglehold on Virginia’s rail expansion plans, the Commonwealth will now join the elite handful of states featuring a legal entity with a mandate to own, manage, and expand rail infrastructure for the public good and the benefit of businesses across the region. → Read More
What will it take for Virginia to get all-electric school buses?
School buses don’t often register in big discussions about climate change, but switching a fleet from diesel to electric could have big benefits. → Read More
Virginia renews its push to ban cell phones while driving
Road safety advocates are hopeful that 2020 will be the year Virginia requires drivers to put down their phones. → Read More
Danville, Virginia may have the recipe for a resilient transit system
Headlines of doom and gloom have long plagued Danville. For the two thirds of Virginians residing in the state’s “Urban Crescent”—stretching from Northern Virginia through Richmond to Hampton Roads, Southern and Southwest Virginia can seem like irredeemable boondocks. The relatively recent heralding of Danville as the “Comeback City” shows there’s more nuance to the region. Either despite or… → Read More
Dude, where’s my ride? RideFinders helps RVA find vanpools & transit
As Richmond’s only non-profit ridesharing and transportation demand management (TDM) service, RideFinders plays a critical role in helping commuters make smarter decisions when navigating our existing transportation infrastructure. And the agency only wants to expand its reach. → Read More
Virginia won’t let anything derail its growing Amtrak service
This month marks a decade since Virginia debuted its first state-sponsored Amtrak routes: two lines from Lynchburg and Richmond that both terminate in DC. Such milestones are important, but the Commonwealth has other figures to celebrate—like the fact that its rail ridership has grown more than 7% within the last year. → Read More
Dockless scooters have had a rough ride in Richmond
The litany of complaints and concerns lodged against dockless electric scooters has grown so long that the devices have begun to feel like the vape pens of the transportation sector. While many issues raised are quite legitimate, plenty of gripes linger on the verge of ludicrous. In no other city, however, have scooters had as rough of a ride as in Richmond, Virginia. → Read More