Related: Learn more about Carrboro’s Linear Park Project and sign up for updates to build out Carrboro’s greenway network. My family lives within walking distance of Carrboro’s Bolin Creek, but we frequently drive to Umstead Park in Chapel Hill to walk along Bolin Creek’s paved path. With the envisioned paved Bolin Creek Greenway in Carrboro […]
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Our blog bloggers look forward to 2023
Happy 2023! We have a lot to look forward to this year, including: Chapel Hill’s official application for the North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project Progress on extending the Bolin Creek Greenway to Carrboro, and Zoning changes that will make it easier to build housing in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. This year is also an election […]
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A demographic analysis of who speaks at public meetings
It’s no surprise that the demographics of the people who spoke are wildly dissimilar from the Carrboro’s overall demographics, by any measure.
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Bolin Creek Greenway Alternative Bike Map: “Not something I’d ever let my kids ride on”
For the past few weeks, an anti-greenway group in Carrboro and Chapel Hill has been sharing a map purportedly showing ‘alternative bike routes’ that could take the place of paving the Bolin Creek Greenway in Carrboro. The map looks like they threw imaginary bike lane spaghetti at a map of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Many […]
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Who uses the Bolin Creek Greenway in Chapel Hill?
In recent weeks, we’ve started to see a lot of misleading facts and misinformation start to spread about the missing Bolin Creek Greenway in Carrboro. Extending the greenway in Carrboro along the existing 30-foot-wide cleared sewage easement would help connect our schools, parks, and unpaved walking trails in Carrboro. We’re going to start debunking these […]
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Bolin Creek Greenway: Protected, safe biking and walking routes to school
I’m a parent in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District, and since the school year started, we’ve received a text, phone call and email almost every day telling us that our kindergartener’s bus is going to be late. The school district has said there are a number of options on the table to help with the […]