Council opts for diamond interchange

The DP reports that due to reportedly safer bike/pedestrian connections, City Council chose this top plan Wednesday rather than this bottom plan for the interchange planned for Route 250 Bypass with the proposed Meadowcreek Parkway, a road that 1990's supporters thought would save downtown.

Now that downtown has been saved somehow without it, the road still has plenty of backers, even though both of these plans appear to cause months-long gridlock and million-dollar issues for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, shown on the aerials as a red cross.