The Chesterfield Daily

One lane of Smoketree Drive between Gordon School and Poplar Ridge roads will be closed and one lane of Gordon School Road between Spirea Road and Smoketree Drive will be closed to repair a water line valve.

The work is scheduled for Thursday, March 27, from 8 a.m-6 p.m. Traffic will be alternated through the work areas.

This is a really great story — A man was running his newspaper route when he noticed one of the houses had flames shooting out of the windows. He ran in and saved 2 kids and 2 adults. Courageous.
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I was driving home the other day and wondered - “When will these new high speed lanes be done?” The new “High Speed” lanes are actually called ORT, Open Road Toll, lanes which is a project RMA has been working on since 2001. I found out that all traffic (southbound) will be directed to the new tolls starting in April. However the ORT Lanes won’t be open until July. That will be a glorious day for all the people sitting on the bridge at 5:00 everyday.

Does this justify the new toll increases?

After those adjustments and rerouting has been done, they will begin on Northbound toll roads, with an ETA of sometime in August.

Long and Foster just released this website which lists more than 2500 single-resident homes.

L&F Website

Police are investigating a weekend burglary in which an undisclosed amount of handguns, pistols, revolvers, shotguns and rifles were stolen from Dominion Shooting Range at 106 Turner Road.

Police said the suspect, or suspects, pried open a side door and stole the guns. An employee discovered the break-in and theft just before 8:30 a.m. on March 22 while attempting to open the business for the day.

Anyone with information should contact the Chesterfield County Police Department at (804) 748-1251 or Crime Solvers at (804) 748-0660.

Did you get 1 of the 449 tickets issued by Chesterfield Police for running a red light in February?  Hopefully, you did not - because you don’t run red lights.

The Chesterfield Police department conducted operation “Running Red Could be Deadly” in February.  Many of the 449 tickets were issued at the following intersections:

Courthouse Road and Midlothian Turnpike, Courthouse and Hull Street roads, and Hull and Old Hundred roads.

Taken at the Falling Creek Ironworks, by InertialGeek

So I assume if you have been living in the past 2 or 3 days you have heard that the toll roads are going up. Frankly, I am not happy about spending up to $3.50 a day just to get downtown and back, this of course not including gas for my car. When is a boycott in order for this kind of thing? I mean honestly, 70.00 a month just for tolls is just plain silly. And God forbid you have to pay for parking downtown, you might as well find a job in Chesterfield.

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What do you think? The RTD did a nice job on an article that is worth reading. The comments section really interested me. Here are a couple:

I heard on the radio that the RMA wants to install the “high speed” toll booths to ease the congestion on the parkway. Here is a novel idea, GET RID OF THE DAMN TOLL BOOTHS and you will solve the congestion problems!!!

Take the extra money you have to spend in tolls and make it a point to cut your spending in the city by that amount each week. Then let’s see how funny the city dewellers think tolls are when $200,000 a week less is spent in the city and they can pay more taxes to make up the difference.

70 cents? If RMA is going to slow traffic to a crawl by making drivers search for different denominations of coins, why don’t they just go ahead and bring it to a standstill by making it, say, 67 cents? The people at RMA have obviously never, ever travelled one of their freeways behind people who pay with coins. Make the toll 75 cents, three quarters even, and retain the 5 cent discount for ez-pass users.

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