Virginia Beach, what the hell man I just read today that they’re planning to spend $200,000 to build a wrought iron fence alongside Virginia Beach Boulevard to keep people from crossing downtown to go to Pembroke inbetween Independence Boulevard and Constitution Drive, wtf?  Not only is a three million dollar crosswalk a bad idea, but spending another 200k to idiot proof walking across the street because people are doing it inbetween intersections is just the straw that breaks the camels back.

Are you really serious?  Because the way I’m understanding it they wanted the traffic light to be as short as it is because it would cause traffic backups for miles, which sounds like a way of overputting it but okay I’ll work with you there.  Because quite honestly, it sounds as though the drivers going around Town Center are more important than the pedestrians with that point of view.  So you build a downtown out of scratch, it is relatively safe but of course you still have like a 45 mph limit going down an 8 lane road, which you should.  But again, you have an 8 lane road going through a downtown area, which isn’t good at all.

Then on top of that instead of installing speed bumps, or actually lowing the limit you find the pedestrians at fault for jaywalking, which is par for the course downtown.  If you want to prevent the jaywalking, do as they do in New York City in Times Square and actually give out tickets for the offense; that much may stop people from doing so.  This is supposed to be the start of something big, like Michigan Avenue in Chicago, so there needs to be a more reasonable way of going about this.  Not to mention the ugly asthetics of a wrought iron fence, or a crosswalk that merely goes across the street, instead of one building to another, to begin with.

Virignia Beach, shame, I have to say I’m dissapointed.  On the bright side more of Town Center is being built, though I’m still waiting to see what happens with that multilevel WalMart that was rumored to be in the works across the street.