A photo gallery of places of note along the town of Chapel Hill’s Bolin Creek Greenway. Established in 1997 This plaque commentates the dedication of the greenway in 1997 The playground at the Community Park at one end of the greenway The eastern end of the trail starts here at the Chapel Hill Community Park […]
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Chapel Hill’s new traffic garden teaches kids how to safely ride bikes
This week, the Town of Chapel Hill soft opened a new traffic garden. With the cold snap upon us, most folks in town haven’t thought much about their garden. But traffic gardens aren’t for growing heirloom tomatoes, they’re for growing confident kids that can navigate our towns’ bike paths and greenways. The new traffic garden […]
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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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Greenways I Know: Jordan River Parkway
I recently flew to Salt Lake City for a work conference. I’ve been to this particular conference a few times, which is always in Salt Lake City, and so I’ve gotten to know my way around a bit. Salt Lake City would not necessarily be my first choice for personal travel, but they do some […]
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Biking to East Chapel Hill High School for the first time
Triangle Blog Blog contributor Geoff Green sent this note Friday to the mayor and town council members in Chapel Hill and we wanted to share it with you. I want to thank you for approving the Complete Community Framework and the Everywhere to Everywhere Greenway Plan, and for your decision to move forward on implementation […]