Bridge Over I-264 Part 2

This is an amazingly thorough description of this problem. We live in the apartments on Wicklow and my 17 year old son works at a store at Town Center. He is saving money for a car, so he has to travel this dangerous stretch of road almost daily. He also goes to Princess Anne High School, so any students in our apartment complex or that side of 264 have to deal with this to go to school events or activities. I see kids on bikes and skateboards all the time trying to get across at the underpass. I totally agree that a bridge would be a great solution, but in the short term the disgusting water and garbage needs to be cleaned up under the overpass to at least make that passable. I put a ticket in to the city 2 months ago about the underpass hoping they would get it cleaned up, but that has not happened yet.

Linda, Thank you for the supporting comments. I've thought about this issue for years, but now it will be my only focus. Please share with your neighbors and friends. Please ask your son to get on social media to get people to this site to view the videos and Vote. Thanks again!

311 Citizen Services - CS1 assigned this issue to Public Works Operations - PW Clerk

The City of Virginia Beach has received your service request and has forwarded it to Public Works/Operations for investigation. For more information or a status update on your request, you can contact them directly at 757-385-1470.

It's dumb that this hasn't been fixed by the city of va beach. Tons of accidents are caused from the lack of walk or bike ways for pedestrians!!

This issue was addressed back in 2006, but nothing has been done about it. Read this article.

http://hamptonroads.com/2006/01/town-center-manager-gets-behind-pedestrian-bridge-over-i264

If you are reading this please tell everyone you know to view the videos, VOTE and post comments here.

Send them this address ---- seeclickfix.com/issues/1679972

BICYCLIST IN EXTREME DANGER

Virginia Beach could learn a lot from this document -

http://www.virginiadot.org/VDOT/Programs/Bicycling_and_Walking/asset_upload_file438_66850.pdf

More proof this area needs to be improved and made safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.

http://wavy.com/2015/07/16/bicyclist-hit-by-a-car-in-virginia-beach/

Incredibly unsafe on the other side of the same bridge too. No room for pedestrians and bicyclists. They are hard to see in daylight because it's so dark under the overpass

The city made a minor improvement. They shoveled the mud out to allow better drainage. They also cut back the vegetation.

Success! Virginia Beach will make an improvement to this area by putting in a sidewalk.

Thank you to all who supported this petition.

I agree. It's a bad choke point for walking, wheelchairs, bicycles, etc.

This issue has been resolved.

Frank, did they add the sidewalk yet? Send a screenshot of this to send this to City Council and the City Manager.

The project design is 90% complete and construction is scheduled to start November of 2019. Please contact Oneil Clarke at 757-385-4131 with any further questions.
This project will provide a 5-ft wide concrete sidewalk along the west side of
Independence Boulevard from the I-264 East on-ramp to Baxter Road, and the north side of Baxter Road from Independence Boulevard to Alicia Drive, a total distance of approximately 0.40 miles. The concrete sidewalk will tie in to existing sidewalks at the Best Buy shopping center on Independence Boulevard and Alicia Drive on Baxter Road. This project also includes a retaining wall under the overpass of I-264, new curb and gutter, accessible curb ramps and pedestrian crosswalks. This project will provide connectivity in an area that is clearly used by pedestrians as evidenced by
the worn natural path. The Total Project Cost is approximately $1,075,000. The City will provide the 20% match ($215,000) and request the remaining 80% ($860,000) in TAP funds.

We would like to close this issue in SeeClickFix as the problem will be eliminated with the construction.

And we STILL wont be able to get to the east side of independence and access places like Trashmore or the YMCA

.

Please see the attached photos

Please see attached photo

Please see attached photo

Photo

Thanks for the update. A sidewalk should not cost a million dollars esp with our limited funds. Interesting waiting for a bad weather month to start it. Anyway, if you all could please not "close" these until they are done that will help make it actually happen. If you close it and someone forgets about it, we'll have to start all over in 10 years and won't get a side walk until 2050; that's if we're lucky. Thanks for your hard work.

Absolutely! Again, if you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Oneil Clarke at 757-385-4131.

CLOSED