Readers of OrangePolitics.org were treated to an April Fool’s prank courtesy of Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton.
“I have been thinking more and more lately about how inappropriate the name ‘Carrboro’ is for a town that is so focused on alternatives to the single occupant motor vehicle,†Chilton wrote on the popular blog. “I mean, I realize the town is named after Julian Shakespeare Carr, rather than the ubiquitous vehicle of the 20th century, but still . . . having our town’s name begin with that object that we are working so hard against just makes no sense to me.… So if I may, I would like to offer up a proposed new name for our town — one which will more properly reflect our town’s environmental ethic: Bikeboro. We would have to get the legislature to pass a bill amending our town charter, but I think they might go along.
What do you guys think?â€