The RDU Airport Authority has scheduled a Special Meeting regarding the future of Lake Crabtree County Park (LCCP) for Wednesday the 29th. This meeting will be to present plans to use the property that is currently part of the Lake Crabtree County Park, a recreation area in the middle of RTP and used by hikers, […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Connectivity, Greenway
Come learn about the Estes Extension Bike-Ped Improvements & Bolin Creek Greenway projects!
This coming Thursday, the town of Chapel Hill will be presenting two upcoming projects that will improve bike and walking connectivity through town: This is a drop in meeting, so come in any time your schedule allows it. We have made no secret about how much we love greenways and bike paths, and how we […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Chapel Hill, Greenway, Uncategorized
Chapel Hill wins grant for “Bookmobile for Bikes”
Some very cool news announced today by Mayor Jess Anderson–the Town of Chapel Hill has been awarded a grant for the “Wheels for Wellness” for what is essentially a bookmobile for bikes! In a video that was released in conjunction with the award, Alyson West, the Town’s Safe Routes to School coordinator, noted that the […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Climate
We’re liveblogblogging the hearing on UNC’s plans to burn PFAS-containing pellets
Hello! We’re at Town Hall where people are streaming in for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality’s (DAQ) public hearing tomorrow at Chapel Hill Town Hall at 6pm to consider UNC’s request to modify its air quality permit to allow it to also burn engineered pellets in its boilers at […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Transit, Connectivity, Transportation
The NSBRT project receives 24.4M in additional funding!
Yesterday (January 15) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded an additional $24.4 million dollars in Capital Investment Grants to Chapel Hill Transit’s North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project along Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill. What does that mean? This money is unallocated federal dollars from fiscal years 22 and 23, so it reduces […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Journalism
The Local Reporter published a piece about a council work session. Only problem? It never took place.
Update: On January 17th, The Local Reporter appears to have deleted the article from their homepage, with no editorial note or indication that they published it in the first place. You can see the original article here. It’s also still available at the original URL. On January 15th, The Local Reporter published an in-depth piece […]