If you’ve traveled along Estes Drive in the past year, you’ve encountered a perfect use case for why connected streets are important. I have yet to speak to anyone that’s excited about having to travel on Estes Drive during this construction (or even before the construction). This single road illustrates more clearly than any in […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Connectivity, Things to do with kids, UNC
Year of the Trail: Hiking and Biking at Carolina North Forest
Carolina North Forest (Horace Williams Tract) is a 947 acre wooded expanse owned by the State of North Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CNF is managed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There are two “sides” of Carolina North Forest, known as the “airport side” (East) and […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Carrboro, Events around town
Photo Essay: Carrboro Open Streets
This last Sunday we went to one of our favorite town events: Carrboro Open Streets. Each year in April the town closes off Weaver Street to cars between Main Street and Roberson Street to make way for residents to walk, ride bikes, and talk to community groups that have setup in the street. What I […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Affordable Housing, Housing, UNC, Zoning
Everything awful said or implied about UNC students in the Town’s housing survey
One of the stranger things about Chapel Hill, a quintessential college town, is how many people here dislike college students. They dislike renters in general but have an extra level of contempt for students, who are widely regarded as rich brats with an unquenchable thirst for destroying the property values of the town’s landed gentry. […]