Buh-bye Parking Garage woes
The days of clogged traffic at the Central Grounds Parking Garage are no more.
While students were relaxing in tropical climates and going to wild beach parties during spring break, the University's Department of Parking & Transportation installed a new gate and electronic sign to indicate when the Central Grounds Parking Garage is full.
The new sign and gate should help alleviate the choking state of traffic flow into and out of the popular parking garage.
"Unfortunately, people were backing out into Emmett Street and people didn't know what to do," Becca White, asst. director of Parking & Transportation said.
P&T received numerous complaints about the state of traffic in and around the parking garage, White said.
"We got complaints about it by people on Emmett Street, and people in the garage who had to turn around," she said.
Because parking officials previously had no way of announcing when the garage was full, they would admit too many vehicles, which caused a congested traffic situation inside the garage.
"It appeared today - management was watching, making sure that traffic was not out on Emmett Street," and everything went well, White said.
Brandon Avenue traffic light
After much work on the busy intersection between Brandon Avenue and Jefferson Park Avenue, where the traffic situation was, at best, constrained and at worst, dangerous, the city finally has installed a new traffic light.
"It's great. We've needed one for a while," third-year College student and Bice House resident Jennifer Webb said. "Generally, crossing the street is hazardous to your health."
Although the police direct traffic during the afternoons, they do not do so in the morning, when traffic, both vehicle and pedestrian, is also congested and dangerous.
"You can take your chances and run out in front of a bus. They usually stop," Webb said.
Bice House resident and third-year College student Jessie Kokrda agreed that the stop light is necessary.
"It was almost impossible to leave Brandon Avenue" without the light, Kokrda said.
The light's wiring is not yet complete, but Charlottesville officials have been working to activate it.
Compiled by Adam Justice
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