Meet Robbie Wright, whoâs cleaning up an Amherst County business corridor one day at a time.
On Wednesday morning, his route started at the McDonaldâs off U.S. 29 Business in Amherst County, embedded in the congestion of big-box stores, fast food drive-thrus and auto shops.
The heavily trafficked business corridor of Madison Heights is a crisscross of telephone wire and fast traffic, with billboards and boxy signs fragmenting the skyline, a sprawl of concrete and asphalt landscape.
And then thereâs the trash. Like most major highways, itâs plagued by debris â the kind that blows out of truck beds, is tossed from hands through car windows or accumulates in high-traffic parking lots and in scrubby grass medians.