Using a tool created by the Parking Reform Network, I calculated how much land in the downtown areas of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are dedicated to parking. The downtown areas of Carrboro and Chapel Hill have more than 37% of downtown land dedicated to parking. That’s more than ⅓ of all of the land downtown. […]
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Pie Pan is your 2024 March Radness Champion
That’s pretty much the whole post. Pie Pie is the coolest person place or thing in Carrboro and Chapel Hill in 2024. We hope to give Pie Pan a trophy soon and imagine both towns are puting together proclamations for Pie Pan Day. Thanks to everyone for voting and to all our contestants for being […]
Posted inThings to do with kids
Interview: the North Carolina Botanical Garden
Tomorrow begins the final matchups in March Radness, an epic showdown to discover the coolest thing in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. If you’re just joining us, The Cave had a dramatic comeback last week, setting up an epic contest against Pie Pan, who has gone from relative obscurity to perhaps the favorite to win it […]
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Interview: Pie Pan, the cat who lives at The Baxter
Tomorrow begins the final matchups in March Radness, an epic showdown to discover the coolest thing in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. If you’re just joining us, The Cave had a dramatic comeback last week, setting up an epic contest against Pie Pan, who has gone from relative obscurity to perhaps the favorite to win it […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Transit, Transportation
Who rides the bus in Chapel Hill?
If you were to make a short list of what makes Chapel Hill distinctive from other North Carolina towns with about 60,000 people, like Apex, Burlington, or Huntersville, you’d probably start with the obvious—the fact that we have a major university in the center of town. But our governments are more similar. All of these […]
Posted inApril Fools
Chapel Hill, Carrboro announce “Everywhere to Everywhere” Brownways Plan
It’s as gross as you think!