🚧 Lynchburg Road Issues 🚧

➡️ CLICK HERE TO VIEW AND ADD ISSUES

This tracker is for issues with the existing sidewalk network, cycling network, and roads in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. It is also a place for new ideas that would make the transportation networks in the city safer, more beautiful, and more efficient.

This tracker is inspired by Mateusz Konieczny's Krakow Road Issues (private repo) project as well as an intention stated by the former Lynchburg City manager Bonnie Svrcek to create a sidewalk project rating system.

Rules for issue contribution

• Use precise language to describe what is wrong or exactly what you would like to see changed
• Provide pictures or street-view screenshots of the area if possible
• Provide a link to the area on OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, etc.
• Every issue must have the BROKEN or PROPOSAL tag
• Every BROKEN issue must have an AUTHORITY: tag. For example AUTHORITY:VDOT or AUTHORITY:APCO (just make your best guess)
  • The VDOT Maintenance Responsibility Map may be useful
• If the issue can be fixed by any citizen without dressing up as a public works employee to dispel suspicion, add the DIYABLE tag.
• After a BROKEN issue has been submitted to the relevant authority, add the REPORTED tag and comment with a copy of the report/request you submitted to the authority
• If this issue is temporary, like an obstruction of a sidewalk, bike lane, or motor vehicle lane, DO NOT add an issue to this tracker. Instead call the Lynchburg Police Department non-emergency line at +1 434 847 1602 and report the issue. If a bike lane is obstructed, additionally submit information about the obstruction to Bike Lane Uprising or email [email protected] with as much detail as possible.

To submit an issue, sign up for a Github account or email [email protected] with as much detail as possible.

Contacts

⚠️ REMEMBER: Be kind and considerate when contacting our elected and appointed officials. ⚠️

City of Lynchburg

• City staff directory

Citizens First Customer Service

• Phone: +1 434 856 2489
• Email: [email protected]
• Web form: https://www.lynchburgva.gov/739/Citizen-First-Customer-Service

Public Works

• Phone: +1 434 455 4450
• Director of Public Works - Gaynelle L. Hart
  • Deputy Director of Public Works - William "Clay" Simmons
    • Email: [email protected]
    • Phone: +1 434 455 4443
    • City Engineer - Lee Newland
      • Engineer of some kind - John Hall
        • Phone: +1 434 455 3935
      • Engineer of some kind - Tommy Hammock
        • Phone: +1 434 455 3918
      • Traffic Engineer - Ryan Roberts (not sure if under deputy director)
        • Phone: +1 434 455 3945
        • Bird scooters, intersection safety assessments - David Pinkstaff
          • Email: [email protected]
          • Follows up on street lamp outages reported to Citizens First, but has no special authority over APCO repair priorities. You should submit street lamp issues directly to APCO.
        • 4-5 sign technicians
        • 3 signal technicians
      • Streets (drainage, crumbling, potholes) - Anthony Johnson
        • Phone: +1 434 455 4459
      • Paving contracts, curbs, ADA ramps - Tim Yarn Benjamin
        • Phone: +1 434 455 4457
      • Road repainting - Howard Parker
        • Phone: +1 434 455 4466
        • NOTE: Per this source, thermoplastic that's used for crosswalks should be applied only when roadway is above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, which means we shouldn't follow up as aggressively about crosswalk refreshing in the winter.
      • Building Maintenance Manager (lamps, fountains, etc. that are not on right-of-way, GLTC property, or city schools property) - Steven "Steve" Bailey
        • Phone: +1 434 455 4408
      • 2 surveyors (maybe under one of the engineers)
      • 5 construction inspectors (maybe under one of the engineers)
      • Urban Forester - Nicholas Meyer
        • Email: [email protected]

Community Development

• Neighborhood Planner II - Charlotte Lester (does community engagement)
  • Phone: +1 434 455 3893
  • Email: [email protected]

Greater Lynchburg Transit Company

• Email: [email protected]
• General Manager - Josh Moore
• Assistant General Manager - Natalie Wilkins
• GTFS data technician - Wendell Watts (best person to submit data and physical stop issues to)
  • Email: [email protected]
• Facilities Maintenance Manager - Ernest White (lamps and such on GLTC property)
  • Phone: +1 434 485 5080 ext 7643

Appalachian Power

• Web form to report street lamp issue: https://www.appalachianpower.com/outages/problem/streetlight
  • Be sure to request a bulb with lower brightness if the streetlight is in a residential area
  • Pole number is very useful. Nearby address is somewhat useful. Coordinates are not useful.
• May also be possible to report lamps from this web map of all AEP lamps: https://streetlights.aep.com/

Verizon

• Facebook Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/verizon/
  • This is the only way to report pole and line issues without a phone call if you do not have a Verizon account

Tools

• Severance Snape - An OpenStreetMap tool for finding "severances" in the pedestrian network that make walking trips very long

Accountability

• Nathan Wyand has a Beeminder goal that charges him money if he doesn't review at least one Lynchburg Road Issue every day