My wanderings, in and around Virginia Beach, VA
You have to wonder what rocket scientist at the city decided that it would be a good thing to start paving London Bridge road at 7:30 AM, and causing major traffic problems in all directions… They could have waited until 8:15 when the traffic drops considerably, and when you consider how little they paved today, was it worth it…
Dam Neck backed up for well over a mile…
It’s annoying enough to be stuck behind someone one driving slow because they are to busy on the phone to drive the speed limit, but it is even more annoying to be stuck behind someone on the cell phone, who is paid by your tax dollars in a vehicle paid for by your tax dollars.
This is not an isolated incident, it seems every time I see a city vehicle, the driver has their cell phone plastered to their ear.
I think the city should be setting an example in safety an ban cell phone use be people driving city vehicles.
City employee driving on the cell phone
BTW this photo was take while stopped at a red light…
It really makes you wonder about the brainiac’s running this city, when for years and years there were no guardrails on Princess Anne road between Dam Neck and the Municipal center, but now that the road is being expanded someone thought it a good idea to go ahead and spend a lot of money to install guardrails the majority of that section of road.
The city is saying how poor they(we) are, and trying to steal money from the schools, but they have plenty of the stuff to do this road upgrade for a road that essentially is going away in the near future. Well maybe not that soon, considering how slow this city Builds roads, I think it took 4 years to widen London Bridge road…
Over the weekend, Saturday, I got around and took care of some things, and I noticed as I passed the 4th or 5th school I passed, that despite being closed for the christmas break (well mostly closed, a couple admin people working) was that the parking lots were plowed. Is there any reason that the school parking lots needed to be plowed when the schools were closed, and the icy roads leading to and from the schools weren’t, sounds real counter productive to me. School budgets are shrinking, yet they have the money to plow parking lots…
Later that evening, while riding bikes to the local bar, we took the usual short cut through the local rec center parking lot, and what did I see while going through the parking lot… Yep you guessed it, the parking lot at the rec center was also plowed, meanwhile earlier in the day I was drivingndown fully covered in snow streets, a week after the snow fell…
Everyday I wonder more and more where this towns priorities are, it doesn’t appear to me that the tax g citizens are very high on that prior it list..
I have heard rumors of these machines known as snowplows existing as far south as Virginia Beach, I have even seen machines resembling snowplows on the streets of Virginia Beach, but they weren’t because they were not actually plowing snow even though there was snow on the ground and the blade was far to high to do anything other then obstruct the drivers vision. I have also seen evidence on the streets of the work the machines can do, but from my observations these machines were incapable of operating more then a mile away from the municipal center, which is true for a lot of things in this town.
That was until today, I actually saw a city snowplow on the streets of Virginia Beach, and believe it or not, it was actually plowing the road… I not only had witnesses, but I actually got a picture..
Yes Virginia Beach this is an actual City of Virginia Beach snowplow plowing London Bridge Road