Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

The school board must maximize walking and biking zones in the school bond

We are strong advocates for a school bond because many of the schools across our district are not only beyond their useful life spans, but are educationally inadequate. In the 1950s and 1960s–when many of our schools were built–they were not designed to house exceptional children classrooms, small group classrooms, speech or occupational therapist offices, […]

Posted inAdvisory Boards, Carrboro, Carrboro Town Council

Live blog: Carrboro Town Council meeting 6/4/24 – bees, OWASA, PFAS, Budget, Survey results

Looking forward to live-blogging the Carrboro Town Council meeting tonight. (Full agenda packet here.) We’re getting our first look at the full proposed budget – which will go live on digital at midnight, like a Taylor Swift album – and an update from OWASA. (Full disclosure: I’m the vice chair of the OWASA board and […]

Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Connectivity, Events around town

Triangle Blog Blog is hosting a parade to celebrate the new sidewalks and bike lane on Estes Drive

There are few things we like more than celebrating bike lanes, sidewalks, crosswalks, and other improvements along Estes Drive, along with wider sidewalks along MLK Blvd., crosswalks at the Estes/MLK intersection, and turn lanes at that intersection. So we’re throwing a parade to celebrate the end of the Estes Drive Connectivity Project, which started two […]

Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Holding hostage a rare opportunity to support our chronically underfunded schools.

A few days ago I wrote about a report and slide deck released by the school district regarding plans to address two critical issues facing our schools: outdated buildings in need of major repairs, and our declining elementary school population. In the proposed slide deck, the district outlined one way that these issues could be […]