
{"id":3668,"date":"2008-10-16T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2008-10-16T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:31:22","slug":"bike-plan-detailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/16\/bike-plan-detailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike plan detailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Carrboro Board of Aldermen talked bicycle transportation, greenways, helmets and more on Tuesday during a work session to review the Bicycle Transportation Plan.<br \/>\nCarrboro received a Comprehensive Bicycle Planning Grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation in May 2007 to create the Bicycle Transportation Plan, which has been developed by staff with the help of Greenways Incorporated.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe plan includes a bicycle network project, with paved shoulders, bicycle lanes, sharrows, sidepaths and off-road trails at identified road corridors, intersections and greenway corridors. The changes are intended to help provide access to schools, greenways, downtown and other business zoning, bicycle facilities, high-density residential areas and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153All of these different components are important to a more bicycle-friendly community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Carrboro transportation planner Adena Messinger said. <\/p>\n<p>The plan identifies 10 priority corridor segments for improvements, including one or more sections of Smith Level Road, Estes Drive, Homestead Road, South Greensboro Street, Old Fayetteville Road, Old Hwy. 86, Shelton Street and North Greensboro Street. <\/p>\n<p>Board member Dan Coleman said he would like to see the board go beyond plan implementation and consider a helmet law for cyclists. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested in seeing whether we can move forward with things like the helmet law,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see us kind of dig into that a little more quickly when we start getting into implementation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Board member Randee Haven-O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell agreed. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I see so many people out there riding without helmets,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<br \/>\nColeman added that he would like the plan to also address the issue of bicycles riding alongside stopped or slow-moving cars in traffic. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very dangerous situation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, suggesting that the town add signs or markings indicating that bikes should remain in the lane with the vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Chilton said he would like the board to work with other local governments to connect Carrboro bicycle corridors to other parts of the county, adding that he specifically would like to identify a route from Carrboro to Hillsborough. <\/p>\n<p>Messinger said she would like residents to voice their concerns or support for the plan, saying that there is still an opportunity to make adjustments to the plan. The finalized plan will be presented to the board for approval early next year. <\/p>\n<p>The public comment period on the plan closes Nov. 7. The entire draft plan is available online at greenways.com\/pages\/CarrboroBicycleDraftPlan.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Carrboro Board of Aldermen talked bicycle transportation, greenways, helmets and more on Tuesday during a work session to review the Bicycle Transportation Plan. Carrboro received a Comprehensive Bicycle Planning Grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation in May 2007 to create the Bicycle Transportation Plan, which has been developed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","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=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}