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Letter: Bicycle Friendly City

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Staff

This fall, Carrboro received the League of American Bicyclists’ Silver Level Bicycle Friendly City award. We were the only town in North Carolina and one of only two in the southeast to receive the silver award. On Saturday, Bill Naspar, the director of the League’s Bicycle Friendly America program, will be on hand to present Carrboro with this award. The presentation will be at 9:00 a.m. at the Looking Glass Café. Bill will also be on hand afterward to discuss ways to improve cycling in the community. I encourage everyone who bikes or who supports bicycling to come and join the celebration. Let’s enjoy the silver we have achieved and start thinking about how to get to gold!

Heidi Perry
Carrboro Transportation Advisory Board

2 thoughts on “Letter: Bicycle Friendly City”

  1. Ralph Van Valkenburgh says:
    February 24, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    I can see Carrboro as a Silver-Level Bicycle-Friendly city, but I do not see Chapel Hill as a Bronze-Level Bicycle-Friendly city. The only ones who would agree that Chapel Hill is bicycle-friendly are those who do not ride in Chapel Hill.

    The lack of safe bicycling lanes and paths, as well as the general disregard by drivers within Chapel Hill to drive safely (and legally) when bicycles are around, makes this town very bicycling-unfriendly. Drivers are more likely than not to ignore stop signs in the neighborhoods, and drivers frequently pass one the opposite side of the road in non-passing zones, often resulting in putting bicyclist’s life in danger when they are forced back to their side of the road due to the oncoming traffic they couldn’t see when the pulled into the opposite lane.

    So congratulations Carrboro! And let me apologize that your neighbor has diminished the apparent notoriety of your award by receiving one. The awards should never be granted without actually trying it out. I know, I do.

  2. John Avery says:
    February 27, 2011 at 11:50 am

    The most blatant violations of traffic laws that I witness in Chapel Hill and Carrboro are by bicyclists. It’s not even close.

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