Podcast for August 23, 2024: VDOT eliminates left turns at Hydraulic/29 and updates from Charlottesville City Manager Sam Sanders

There are Fridays and then there’s this Friday, August 23, 2024. This is a podcast version of Charlottesville Community Engagement with audio versions of stories of material sent out earlier this week. Some of the stories have been updated with additional information. Which ones? You’ll have to study closely to find out. I’m Sean Tubbs, encouraging you to listen if you’ve not done so before. 

In this edition: 

• No left turns ever again at Hydraulic Road and U.S. 29 starting Monday (learn more)

• Charlottesville releases a notice of availability for funds for affordable housing projects (learn more)

• Sanders provides updates on Stribling Avenue sidewalk project (learn more)

• There’s a new name for the area’s solid waste drop-off point (learn more)

First shout-out: Information Charlottesville

In today’s shout-out from the owner of Town Crier Productions, have you taken a look at Information Charlottesville? You can do so now at infocville.com.  What’s there? 

Since the middle of February, there have been over four hundred stories contained within the newsletter Charlottesville Community Engagement. The vast majority of them are reposted to Information Charlottesville, a website I created to serve as an archive. Most of the stories from the last four years are on the site and if you go back far enough you can even see the test run I did of this newsletter in early January 2020. 

The goal of all of this is to document a community and region in transition through coverage of decisions about what will happen with links to primary sources to help people gather the information they need to understand context and complexity. 

You won’t find pop-up ads but you just might find something you wanted to know about. Visit infocville.com now to learn more about how you can help keep all of this going! 

A behind the scenes look at the super-spreadsheet that really does all of the work here at Town Crier Productions

This image is here solely to ensure there’s something I can put in the little box that goes out on social media. It *is* in one of the stories. These podcast only posts are still a little new to me.

Second shout-out: Thanks to Wraki for the music! 

If you listen to this edition of the program about halfway through there will be a break where I say “this is Charlottesville Community Engagement”  and usually I would read one of the pieces of copy for a shout-out. 

And underneath it would be a track by the elusive Wraki called “the helvetica syndrome” but in this case I’m drawing attention to the role that this D.C. based artist plays in each and every podcast by provided music that can be used without paying any royalties. I’ve offered, they’ve refused, and so I’m encouraging people to go to Bandcamp to see what other music by Wraki is there. You too can “regret everything” in musical style. 

Or consider diving onto the Wraki wavelength on YouTube. Either way, thank you Wraki!