
{"id":5334,"date":"2009-03-26T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2009-03-26T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:04:08","slug":"board-approves-bike-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/03\/26\/board-approves-bike-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Board approves bike plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biking around Carrboro could become a little easier \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or more difficult, according to some cyclists \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with the adoption of a new bicycle transportation plan. <\/p>\n<p>The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the plan, which was developed by town staff with the help of Greenways Incorporated. The plan was funded by a Comprehensive Bicycle Planning Grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, which was received in May 2007.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Greenways consultant Matt Hayes, surveyed Carrboro residents indicated that biking conditions in Carrboro were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fair,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which, he said, is better than most communities in North Carolina, but still indicates room for improvement. <\/p>\n<p>The plan includes a bicycle network project, with paved shoulders, bicycle lanes, sharrows, side paths 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 zones, bicycle facilities, high-density residential areas and more.<\/p>\n<p>While many residents supported the plan and its improvements, others spoke out against it, saying bike lanes were restrictive.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bike lanes are unwarranted and substandard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cyclist Wayne Pein said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bicyclists are erroneously considered a third category separate from motorists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Remove all bike lanes and place signs or pavement markings affirming bicyclists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rights to use as much of the road as we see fit, which is consistent with state law,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Elise Giddings, owner of Cycle 9, said that while she agreed with some of Pein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s points, she felt that bike lanes were necessary for some riders. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I personally feel very confident riding in a lane of traffic with no bicycle lane, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want my 5 year old doing that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she 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>According to town transportation planner Adena Messenger, Carrboro has shared the plan with Chapel Hill so that officials there can consider the plans while developing their own bicycle transportation projects. <\/p>\n<p>The entire plan is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/greenways.com\/pages\/CarrboroBicycleDraftPlan.html\">greenways.com\/pages\/CarrboroBicycleDraftPlan.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other town business, the board also voted to approve Arbors at Winmore, a 22-unit project located on 0.95 acres within Winmore Village off Homestead Road. Units would consist of 10 townhomes and 12 multi-family apartments in a single building. <\/p>\n<p>According to the developer, Crosland LLC, the development is intended entirely as affordable housing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Biking around Carrboro could become a little easier \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or more difficult, according to some cyclists \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with the adoption of a new bicycle transportation plan. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the plan, which was developed by town staff with the help of Greenways&#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-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","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=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5336,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions\/5336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}