
{"id":3122,"date":"2008-07-31T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2008-07-31T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T14:38:10","slug":"new-town-bike-plan-rolls-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/07\/31\/new-town-bike-plan-rolls-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"New town bike plan rolls forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by <strong>Jack Carley<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Town of Carrboro held a meeting July 23 to hear public comments on the initial stages of a new bike plan for the town. Consultants from Greenways, Inc. presented a preliminary plan for improving the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bicycle facilities and about 50 people dropped by to see the plans and offer their opinions, said town Transportation Planner Adena Messinger.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMessinger says that public comments are being considered in the planning process and that a newer draft plan should be ready by Friday to see at the town hall or online at the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website (<a href=\"http:\/\/ci.carrboro.nc.us\">ci.carrboro.nc.us<\/a>). The newer draft will be up for review for about two months, Messinger said, and will likely be available for comment at another public hearing.<br \/>\nNew bicycle facilities in Carrboro may include more bike lanes, offroad paths, wider shoulders and something called a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sharrow,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d short for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153share the road\u00e2\u20ac\u009d arrow.<\/p>\n<p>Messinger said the meeting went \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alright\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but may have been dampened by the weather. Still she said some bicyclists braved the ominous clouds and had helmets in hand at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jack Carley Staff Writer The Town of Carrboro held a meeting July 23 to hear public comments on the initial stages of a new bike plan for the town. Consultants from Greenways, Inc. presented a preliminary plan for improving the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bicycle facilities and about 50 people dropped by to see the plans and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}