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What is in the Bolin Creek Greenway Conceptual Master Plan? We break it down.

by Triangle BlogBlog3 days agoFebruary 1, 2023

In 2008, the Town of Carrboro commissioned Greenways Incorporated, a nationally recognized greenway design and planning firm founded by Chuck Flink, to assess the feasibility of Bolin Creek and Jones Creek for a greenway that would connect Morris Grove Elementary in the north to Wilson Park in the south. At the time, there was much […]

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Making a Place for Feet: Greenways as Environmental Restoration Projects

by Ryan Byars4 days agoFebruary 1, 2023

The other morning I went for a walk on Bolin Creek in Carrboro. What you’re saying when you tell someone that you went for a walk on Bolin Creek is that you walked on the sewer easement that runs alongside Bolin Creek. Buried underneath the cleared path that so many of us use is a […]

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How we’re answering the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools survey on the school bus shortage

by Triangle BlogBlog4 days agoJanuary 31, 2023

If you have a kid in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, you received an ominous automated phone call, text, and email yesterday encouraging you to fill out a survey about school bus transportation. The email said: As you may know, CHCCS no longer has enough school bus drivers to cover all of our routes on […]

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Greenways I know: Black Creek Greenway

by Ryan Byars1 week agoJanuary 25, 2023

The other day I wanted to take my two older kids (ages 9 and 6) for a bike ride on a greenway. Greenways are great for family bike rides because your kids, who are perhaps not old enough to predictably share a space with a car traveling 35 MPH, need a wide berth and some […]

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Morgan Creek Greenway: In Pictures

by John ReesJanuary 15, 2023January 15, 2023

A photo gallery of places of note along the town of Chapel Hill’s Morgan Creek Greenway. To access the greenway by car, you need to approach from the Eastbound lanes of NC54 from Smith Level Road. Just after you pass the Kingswood Apartments, be on the lookout for this sign. You can access a parking […]

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Morgan Creek Trail: The Year of the Trail in North Carolina

by John ReesJanuary 15, 2023January 15, 2023

The Morgan Creek Trail in Chapel Hill is not quite a mile long, and stretches east-west along the Morgan Creek flood plain. Like most of Chapel Hill’s paved greenways, it sits in two separate utility easements.

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