Google Maps now has street view of RVA. Now westenders can safely wander the streets of the big city without worrying about their safety.
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March 28th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
It is a strange and disorienting experience to take a virtual version that follows one of the routes I take from office to house each day. The West Broad and North Robinson Street stretches seem to have been photographed toward dusk.
I don’t see many people out on the sidewalks. I register this when I’m enjoying my pedestrian pleasures, I guess, how I can pass several blocks and not see anybody. But using this Google Maps view, I’m reminded of that “Omega Man” film with Heston, or maybe “28 Days Later.” Weird. A bicyclist here on Robinson, a woman talking on her cell phone near Floyd and Robinson, and on the street where I live, nary a soul stirring. Spooky.