Thatch Winery and Wine Works Traffic safety issues from their visitors on our residential road
On a quaint country road in Albemarle county lives quite a few residence who are suffering from the traffic going to and from Thatch Winery and Wine Works. These visitors are a safety hazard for the residence here, who enjoy walking their dirt road to exercise and visit neighbors, riding bikes and golf carts to each other’s homes, walking babies and grand babies in strollers. There’s been many instances where residence have been almost hit by speeders, visitors blowing horns at golf carts because they were holding them up from speeding after drinking at the winery. We’ve asked the winery numerous times to address this issue. We the residence of Harris Creek Road and roads adjacent to Harris Creek Road request that the Winery utilize their alternate entrance that the ingress and egress is located off of Route 20 S. We also ask that if any tourist/visitors, contractors, and employees continue to use Harris Creek Road as an entrance that the winery put signage at the end of Harris Creek Road and state route 20 inform their visitors, contractors, and employees that the speed limit is no more than 25 mph that this is a residential area which is the state posted speed limit on Harris Creek Road and should be only 15 mph for safety reasons. Thank you for helping us get our road safe again.
Updates
November 8, 2020
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many people have joined this effort to keep our road safe. This momentum belongs entirely to all of you who took the time to care about our neighborhood.
19 Comments
This little country subdivision road is NOT proper for all the winery traffic. It's narrow and dangerous for the residents that walk their children, grandchildren, and pets. Speeding cars ignoring the speed limit signs is a tradgedy waiting to happen. The winery has their own entrance and should be utilize as such and NOT the Harris Creek Rd where residence are.
I have ask many time for the police and VDOT to step in and help us. The amount of traffic is unacceptable for this road. My house sits at the bottoms of the hill just before the road turns to paved they go by my house way over 25 miles per hour and the ups and fedex trucks fly on this road . The winery needs to use the alternate drive. I like to take my grandson for walks and have had to push his stroller over to the ditch several times . This is ridiculous.
Just today we had a car fly into our drive with there car to let a huge truck pass by. We had visitors parked in our drive way and the way he quickly turn into the drive way not expecting another vechile to pop over the hill has he was leaving the vineyard. Luckly he didnt hit the other cars in our drive way.
Every morning either walking or running with my dogs I become fearful as I know Wine Work employers are going to come flying down the road to make sure they make it on time. I have to schedule my weekend walks around when I know the wineries will be busy because I am fearful of customers leaving the wineries hitting me or my dogs. I have to stop pull my dogs off of the road completely almost on a daily basis to ensure we don’t get hit. I now have a daughter and at some point we will be walking her in the stroller and our dogs. This issue has become a dangerous one and something needs to change before a pet or person is seriously injured.
I have family members who live on this road. When I go to visit them I have witnessed the recklessness of people coming and going from the winery. The families on this road deserve to feel safe and also be able to have family events outside without worrying about drunk drivers speeding down past their children and family!
Especially while waiting for the school bus in morning and afternoons!
Something definitely needs to be done. I worry about the kids.
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Thatch Winery and Wine Works Traffic safety issues from their visitors on our residential road
On a quaint country road in Albemarle county lives quite a few residence who are suffering from the traffic going to and from Thatch Winery and Wine Works. These visitors are a safety hazard for the residence here, who enjoy walking their dirt road to exercise and visit neighbors, riding bikes and golf carts to each other’s homes, walking babies and grand babies in strollers. There’s been many instances where residence have been almost hit by speeders, visitors blowing horns at golf carts because they were holding them up from speeding after drinking at the winery. We’ve asked the winery numerous times to address this issue. We the residence of Harris Creek Road and roads adjacent to Harris Creek Road request that the Winery utilize their alternate entrance that the ingress and egress is located off of Route 20 S. We also ask that if any tourist/visitors, contractors, and employees continue to use Harris Creek Road as an entrance that the winery put signage at the end of Harris Creek Road and state route 20 inform their visitors, contractors, and employees that the speed limit is no more than 25 mph that this is a residential area which is the state posted speed limit on Harris Creek Road and should be only 15 mph for safety reasons. Thank you for helping us get our road safe again.
Updates
November 8, 2020
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many people have joined this effort to keep our road safe. This momentum belongs entirely to all of you who took the time to care about our neighborhood.
19 Comments
Safety for children of Harris Creek Road and traffic issues are my main concern. Even the visibility of police cars who live on Harris Creek Road, doesn’t deter the speed for respect of the community. Harris Creek Road is a dead end road that is .6 miles long and has at least 7 sharp curves for that distance, which makes 25 mph an excessive speed account of visibility issues. Also, when pulling immediately into the vineyard, you see a 10mph speed limit with speed bumps and they have a wide open field.
This little country subdivision road is NOT proper for all the winery traffic. It's narrow and dangerous for the residents that walk their children, grandchildren, and pets. Speeding cars ignoring the speed limit signs is a tradgedy waiting to happen. The winery has their own entrance and should be utilize as such and NOT the Harris Creek Rd where residence are.
I have ask many time for the police and VDOT to step in and help us. The amount of traffic is unacceptable for this road. My house sits at the bottoms of the hill just before the road turns to paved they go by my house way over 25 miles per hour and the ups and fedex trucks fly on this road . The winery needs to use the alternate drive. I like to take my grandson for walks and have had to push his stroller over to the ditch several times . This is ridiculous.
Just today we had a car fly into our drive with there car to let a huge truck pass by. We had visitors parked in our drive way and the way he quickly turn into the drive way not expecting another vechile to pop over the hill has he was leaving the vineyard. Luckly he didnt hit the other cars in our drive way.
Every morning either walking or running with my dogs I become fearful as I know Wine Work employers are going to come flying down the road to make sure they make it on time. I have to schedule my weekend walks around when I know the wineries will be busy because I am fearful of customers leaving the wineries hitting me or my dogs. I have to stop pull my dogs off of the road completely almost on a daily basis to ensure we don’t get hit. I now have a daughter and at some point we will be walking her in the stroller and our dogs. This issue has become a dangerous one and something needs to change before a pet or person is seriously injured.
I have family members who live on this road. When I go to visit them I have witnessed the recklessness of people coming and going from the winery. The families on this road deserve to feel safe and also be able to have family events outside without worrying about drunk drivers speeding down past their children and family!
Especially while waiting for the school bus in morning and afternoons!
Something definitely needs to be done. I worry about the kids.
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Safety for children of Harris Creek Road and traffic issues are my main concern. Even the visibility of police cars who live on Harris Creek Road, doesn’t deter the speed for respect of the community. Harris Creek Road is a dead end road that is .6 miles long and has at least 7 sharp curves for that distance, which makes 25 mph an excessive speed account of visibility issues. Also, when pulling immediately into the vineyard, you see a 10mph speed limit with speed bumps and they have a wide open field.