http://hamptonroads.com/node/355368 Pilot Warrior en-us Copyright 2008 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:41:03 -0400 Arn Salasky believes a bike trail can ultimately help cure what ails Ocean View. Randy Wright, the councilman, favors a multiuse trail on Pleasant Avenue. What do you think of those proposals? Arn has some other notions for Ocean View, too. Among them: - Rename Ocean View Avenue Ocean Drive. The reason? We have a PR problem in East Ocean View. People hear 'East Ocean View,' they say, 'I'm not going there.' He said East Beach and Wiloughby have already taken the lead in distancing themselves from Ocean View's longtime reputation. Anywhere you go on either coast has the most exp http://hamptonroads.com/2007/09/ocean-view Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:04:00 -0400 This photo, by Ray McDaniels, demonstrates the potentially dangerous mix of boaters and swimmers on the Chesapeake Bay. The photo was shot in Virginia Beach. To make the image larger, just click on it. What do you think? http://hamptonroads.com/2007/09/jet-skis-and-swimmers Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:41:00 -0400 Thursday, Sept. 13, The Warrior writes about access to the popular Red Mill Commons shopping center in Virginia Beach. What access issues - pedestrian or vehicular - do you encounter at area shopping centers? Incidentally, Tuesday afternoon, Master Zachary Warren, 16 months old, accompanied me on his first Pilot Warrior outing(s). It's an experience his older sisters have endured on many occasions. The subject being access issues at Red Mill Commons, I asked Zachary what he thought of the sidewalk that ends with a curb, and he gave me the all-purpose You got me response - the upward-turne http://hamptonroads.com/2007/09/shopping-center-access Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:35:00 -0400 Tuesday, Sept. 10, The Warrior wrote about Jet Skis mingling with swmmers behind the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel and Conference Center. It compelled reader Kenny Skees of Norfolk to write the following: I just read your article in today's Virginian Pilot about the jet ski rental situation at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel. Your comments about the typical jet ski rider were amusing. I myself am 51 years old, with 3 kids and I own a jet ski and a boat, but I do not own a tank top and I quit smoking decades ago. From my experience and research into the four stroke engine on my jet http://hamptonroads.com/2007/09/jet-skis Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:49:00 -0400 North End residents and beachgoers have widely varying points of view, as you might expect, where parking on oceanside streets is concerned. Road's heard a lot of stories about extremes on both sides. There was the resident who deflated tourists' tires when they parked in front of her house. She then charged them $5 per tire to pump them back up. One former North End resident told me he had Fire Lane- Towing Zone signs made by a local sign shop. Do you sympathize with residents who don't want cars parked in front of their homes? Under what circumstances? http://hamptonroads.com/2007/08/parking-north-end-virginia-beach Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:40:00 -0400 What are your experiences with our area's 911 service? Can you suggest improvements? http://hamptonroads.com/2007/08/calling-911 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:48:00 -0400 Reader Max Schram, who lives in the Atlantic Shores retirement community in Virginia Beach, wrote asking why there are few street addresses posted on businesses along Virginia Beach Boulevard. In New Jersey, he wrote, everything that faces the street has to have a number. It's very annoying. Rewind to an April 14, 2000 Warrior column: Hey, Road: The lack of address numbers at business locations makes me crazy. If the numbers exist at all, they are on the storefronts and nearly unreadable.Whatever happened to the requirement for business owners to prominently display their address http://hamptonroads.com/2007/08/businesses-don%2526%2523039%3Bt-post-their-addresses Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:08:00 -0400 Do you think bus shelters are a contributing factor to the low useage of mass transit? What do you think, generally, it would take to get more people to use buses/mass transit? Or is it a hopeless cause? http://hamptonroads.com/2007/08/bus-shelters Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:59:00 -0400 My last bicycle was a 10-speed, purchased when i was 12 years old with the purpose of making me a more efficient carrier for the Olean Times-Herald. That's until about two weeks ago, when I bought a shiny, new, black Raleigh bicycle. Now, I'm getting some big ideas. I'd like to commute into work on my bike one day. Which doesn't sound like a big deal, until you consider I live in Suffolk, and work in Norfolk. Crazy loves company. I'd like to get some others - especially those who haven't done it before - to ride into work with me that day, also (what day, I haven't decided yet). If you ha http://hamptonroads.com/2007/06/attention-fair-weather-bicyclists Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:25:00 -0400 I recently wrote a column about some motor scooter users on the North End of Virginia Beach, who purportedly were blowing through by the access road that parallels Atlantic Avenue, ignoring stop signs in the process. A couple weeks later, I was treated to a couple e-mails from the self-proclaimed G-Ped Crew, including niceties such as Screw U Man and Mind UR own business. Note to scooter gangstas: When engaging in punkish behavior, DO NOT use your mother's e-mail account, partcularly if it has her name on it. And if that name corresponds to a North End listing in the phone book. That http://hamptonroads.com/2007/05/g-ped-crew-crows Fri, 04 May 2007 17:00:00 -0400