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Here’s a recap of the top stories on the morning of Nov. 5, 2024
Richmond mayoral candidates share vision for safer roads, GRTC
Reported by VPM News’ Sean McGoey
As a part of their bid to succeed Levar Stoney as mayor, the five candidates vying for Richmond’s top job have discussed transportation issues ranging from potential changes to the city’s roundabouts to making Richmond more walkable.
Chet Parsons, executive director of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority, said having a robust transit system is crucial to the economic growth of the city — and the region. He added that his organization’s has administered about $750 million in transportation funding across the Richmond metropolitan area to help deliver continued growth.
“It's not Henrico competing with Chesterfield. It's Central Virginia competing with Tidewater or Northern Virginia — or Austin, Texas, or Chattanooga, Tennessee,” Parsons said. “This is about national competitiveness.”
Richmond mayoral candidates share common strategy for reducing gun violence
Reported by VPM News’ Whittney Evans
All five candidates for Richmond mayor have said they’d implement a gun violence prevention measure called Group Violence Intervention — a strategy that's been used for decades to reduce homicides and gun violence in cities like Boston, Detroit and New Orleans.
But Richmond leaders have previously declined to adopt the strategy, instead developing the Gun Violence Prevention and Intervention Framework.
So far this year, the city said there’s been a 6% reduction in overall violent crime and a 20% reduction in homicides compared to 2023.
In other news:
- A complicated history of slavery, resilience at a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children (The Associated Press)
In case you missed it:
- 7 things we’re watching on election night in Richmond (The Richmonder)
- The greatest threat to McGuire: A write-in campaign within his own party (The Daily Progress)*
- Adaptive reuse has seen several Richmond medical centers reborn as residences (Richmond magazine)
*This outlet utilizes a paywall.
