Here’s your chance to have some input in the transportation planning process. The CTB is responsible for all major transportation decisions in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
COMMONWEALTH TRANSPORTATION BOARD SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS
RICHMOND ─ Secretary of Transportation Sean T. Connaughton and the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) today announced that nine public meetings will be held across the state this fall so that the public may discuss projects and programs in the CTB’s current Six-Year Improvement Program (SYIP) and provide comments for the development of the Fiscal Years 2014-2019 SYIP, including multimodal initiatives for highways, rail and transit. Information regarding the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), which includes all SYIP projects eligible for federal funding, will also be available.
The meetings will include an open house from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Representatives from various state transportation agencies, Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Planning District Commissions will be available during each open house session to provide information and highlight their transportation programs. Displays and handouts will be available at each of the meetings. Additionally, an Amtrak Virginia Kiosk will be available for citizens to purchase Amtrak Virginia tickets. [continue reading…]
Brantley Tyndall (l) talks with Jake Helmboldt, RVA Bike Ped Cooridnator
In a move to support growing cycling community on campus, Virginia Commonwealth University officially opened its new RamBikes facility on its downtown campus.
According to manager Brantley Tyndall, VCU hopes to, “deliver bike safety training in a less formal, more exciting environment to reach out to those that might not pursue traditional educational programs on their own. We want to see more cyclists on campus, as well as a better trained, safer cycling community as a whole.”
RamBikes is dedicated to promoting bicycling as a safe, fun, economical, efficient and environmentally friendly transportation alternative for the VCU campus community.
The League of American Bicyclists awarded VCU a Silver Bike Friendly University designation earlier in 2012.
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VCTF Exec. Dir. Beth Weisbrod (l), Bud and his daughter Laura
VBF Advocacy Director Lloyd J. “Bud” Vye, was honored with the unveiling of a bench along the VA Capital Trail near Great Shiplock Park in Richmond. The bench commemorates Bud’s commitment to bicycling advocacy in Central Virginia. For decades, Bud has been the point person for bike and pedestrian issues in the region and at the VA General Assembly.
Around two dozen people came to celebrate the event, despite cold, drizzly weather, many of whom joined Bud after the ceremony for a commemorative ride in his honor. Bud shared with the audience that he had attended some of the initial hearing for the Capital Trail as far back as 1992 and was looking forward to riding the entire fifty-five mile trail when it is completed in 2014.
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Free bike maps available at all Virginia Welcome Centers and local visitor centers.
RICHMOND — Just in time to enjoy the great outdoors and the beautiful colors of fall, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has released an updated version of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bicycling in Virginia map. A full-color map geared toward both avid and leisure cyclists, the updated map includes bicycle trails, regional inset maps and a guide for riding safely and legally in Virginia.
VDOT worked in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Virginia Tourism Corporation to create this updated map in order to keep pace with the growing demand for bicycling information from both Virginia residents and visitors. The first edition was released in the fall of 2006.
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“Recycle (the) biking community’s positive energy,” says Tom Silvestri, president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, one of Virginia’s most conservative newspapers.
Silvestri “gets” how embracing bicycling has brought international reknown and economic success to cities like Portland OR, Boulder CO, and Long Beach CA, at relatively very low cost. (An oft-cited statistic is that Portland’s entire bike network was built for the cost of one mile of urban freeway.)
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