Originally published May 31, 2022 on Durham Streets and shared with the author’s permission. TL;DR: NCDOT is resurfacing Erwin Road, presenting an opportunity to reimagine and reconfigure this highly traveled roadway, ensuring comfort and safety for all users and all modes. But NCDOT has told the City of Durham they will not support the conversion …
Unbelievably, it’s the last day of May! Here’s a selection of media morsels from the weekend and (the first half of) today). Triangle Blog Blog contributor Geoff Green took his e-bike to the farmer’s market and grabbed some locally grown spring flowers! Keep an eye out for upcoming e-bike content on the Blog Blog! It’s …
A cheat sheet for how to follow what’s happening with the North Carolina state budget as well as how to track specific bills and local acts.
It’s a short week thanks to the Memorial Day holiday, but two of our local governments are keeping busy. Here is a look at some of the local government meetings scheduled for this week, May 31 – June 3, 2022: Chapel Hill Town Council The Chapel Hill Town Council will be holding a virtual work …
The nice thing about signing a petition is it allows you to feel virtuous without the need to contemplate any hard choices or competing priorities. And what’s more virtuous than advocating for a community good when you don’t have to figure out how to pay for it? That’s no doubt the reason behind the relative …
Happy Friday, y’all! Here are a few articles that the Triangle Blog Blog crew have discussed or shared in the last 24 hours. Have ideas? Leave us a note in the Twitter comments! And have a fantastic weekend! We’ll catch you on the other side… Our friends down the (multiuse) trail in Charlotte are taking …
We’ve made it to Thursday – well done, y’all! Here’s what’s on the media lunch menu at TBB headquarters. I’m kidding, we don’t have headquarters. Or do we…. It may be hard to believe, but modern zoning evolved as a practice of exclusion. Read more about the origins and impacts in this piece from KQED. …
It’s a difficult day in a place and during a time when horrific events like yesterday’s tragedy in Uvalde, Texas seem only seem to be increasing in frequency. Our collective thoughts are with the families who sent children to school yesterday morning with the reasonable expectation that they would be coming home at the end …
tl;dr – A CHALT petition circulating calls for park on the American Legion site. The petition is misleading: The plan has ALWAYS been to build a park on the American Legion site. Five members of Town Council announced plans to build a “world class park” on the site last week, in addition to some retail …
It took 37 years to agree on a plan to put housing on the Greene Tract, Kirk Ross wrote last year. When a development project moves slowly, it can be hard to remember all of the little details. Those details — like how we name things — can be used by opponents of the project …
