City residents rolled over by Stones
Thank you for providing a forum in which interested Charlottesville residents and others can express our concerns, passions and opinions. As a city of Charlottesville resident, I am appalled and ashamed at the chaos that was created in order to make a few bucks and satisfy the rock ‘n’ roll generation’s need for the Rolling Stones [Get Out Now, October 4]!
Although I live and work within the city limits near the University, it took me four hours to get home on the night of the concert, and then found that my driveway and every inch of our street were being taken up by concert-goers that didn’t give a damn about parking or traffic laws, private property or anything or anyone else but the music.
If the University and the City of Charlottesville must continue to be driven by greed and house other crazy events such as last night’s concert, then we, the residents of the city, implore the powers that be to do the right thing. Something! Anything! Provide parking outside the city limits and bus the idiots in!
It’s not bad enough that we have to be held hostages in our homes on football game days in order to protect our private property and our homes, now we have to be slaves to other events being held at Scott Stadium. And on a weeknight to boot!
My child, who is a student in the city school system, couldn’t even get his homework done until midnight last night because we could not get home! I’m the one that had to drag him out of bed this morning for school. I’m the one that had to clean the beer cans and other trash out of my yard this morning. Not the city government, the police, even the sanitation authority or rowdy concertgoers! Me, and I’m fed up!
JoDale O. LiBrandi
Charlottesville
CORRECTION
In last week’s interview with guitarist Trey Anastasio, we misspelled Phish co-founder Jon Fishman’s name.