No Elephant Walk in Richmond!

Richmond.com Citing safety concerns, there will be no animal walk this year before the beginning of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, according to a report onWTVR.com. The tour schedule was changed from prior years, announced a spokesperson for the company. That puts the animals arriving from Philadelphia by mid-morning instead of the traditional evening arrival. In the interest of time and safety and to accommodate Richmond traffic on surface streets as well as the Manchester Bridge, Ringling Bros. will transport its elephants to the Richmond Coliseum by trailer this year, the spokesman said in a press release. Update: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus' local PR firm, Alliance Group, confirms the cancellation.