Another week, another survey for a road project in Charlottesville.
The City of Charlottesville is seeking input on a proposal to remove vehicular lanes from 5th Street Southwest between downtown Charlottesville and the Willoughby neighborhood.
“Previous studies have identified potential options for making improvements to 5th Street SW, but those proposals carried higher project costs and impacts than anticipated,” reads the website seeking public comment.
One of the previous proposals in 2022 would have eliminated one lane in each direction and converted each into a travel way that would have been reserved for buses, bicyclists, and emergency vehicles. Initial traffic modeling indicated that doing so would create long traffic queues.
The 2025 proposal has a smaller scope.
“The current proposal would eliminate a single southbound lane on 5th Street Southwest between Cherry Avenue and 5th Street Station and install a protected bi-directional bikeway,” the website continues.
The city will hold an open house about the project at Jackson-Via Elementary School on April 9th 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM. The survey is open through April 30.
For background here are some previous stories:
- Petition seeks changes to 5th Street to prevent further crashes, November 11, 2020
- Council briefed on ways to slow down Fifth Street Extended, November 17, 2020
- Fatal crash on Fifth Street extended, January 3, 2022
- Council poised to reduce speed limit Fifth Street Extended, February 10, 2022
- City transportation planners present ideas on Fifth Street, May 27, 2022
Before you go: This is a story from the April 7, 2025 edition of the Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter. For another take, here’s a story from the Charlottesville Daily Progress.
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