Posts by James Bacon — Guest Contributor

Jim Bacon publishes the Bacon Rebellion blog, the leading nonpartisan blog devoted to state/local public policy issues in Virginia. A lifelong journalist, he lives in Henrico County.

• 

  With its superstreet plans, Chesterfield is doubling down on suburban sprawl

  RoadsBy James Bacon (Bacon’s Rebellion) November 20, 2019 7

  The traffic engineers, it appears, have won. Chesterfield County is doubling down on suburban sprawl with plans to build a series of “superstreets” at a cost of tens of millions of dollars over the next decade. While the massive infrastructure investment likely will reduce traffic accidents and improve traffic flow on the streets themselves, they will literally cement into place the county’s dysfunctional land use patterns.  Keep reading…