‘Whiners’ should quit fighting road

It’s time for the silliness to stop — by the activists as well as their political enablers.

The Meadowcreek Parkway has been debated endlessly, and the decision to build it reflects, by this point in its long history, an overly sensitive design and the lightest footprint possible through Mc-Intire Park.

What we’re seeing is a minority in full whine. Most of us, for whom the parkway would be an asset and a welcome addition to the community transportation plan, have work and families that require our daily attention. But just because we can’t spend our days toting signs and acting aggrieved doesn’t mean we don’t care. We do. And we want this project completed.

I trust that Charlottesville and the Virginia Department of Transportation will keep this in mind as they add litigation to the costs being borne by the taxpayers to stand up to Jennifer McKeever and her “coalition” (“Group wants judge to rule city’s land transfer for parkway illegal,” The Daily Progress, May 20).

Luis Alvarez Jr.
Albemarle County