
{"id":8998,"date":"2010-02-11T10:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:24:26","slug":"greenway-should-be-for-all-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/02\/11\/greenway-should-be-for-all-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenway should be for all to use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Debbie L. Nichols<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI find your Flora columns fascinating and informative, specifically the 2\/4\/10 issue connecting Avatar to nature. It is most imperative that all citizens be allowed to partake in nature observations.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in this same issue there was a disturbing letter (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carrboro misguided,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 2\/4\/10), symbolizing a trend. The writer objects to sidewalks or bike lanes. Without sidewalks, people in wheelchairs find it almost impossible to travel. Everyone should be allowed access to public land, especially nature trails.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I think about the recent 50-year anniversary of the Woolworth sit-in and how this country has changed in racial relations. Yet the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attitude towards the disabled is out of step in terms of equality. As a disabled person with multiple sclerosis, I face discrimination daily. I have been told that I \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worthy of owning a dog,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live independently, etc. I only need a cane, but friends in wheelchairs cannot leave their houses due to so many hindrances. And now the property owners around Bolin Creek are saying that a disability access is not good for the environment. Where were they when the residents of southwest Orange County were fighting against the airport flying over our property and the waste transfer station? This is the bread basket of the county. Are they nuts? Now they are organizing against any kind of access for the disabled, using an environmental excuse when it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold water.<\/p>\n<p>According to online records, Orange County paid for half the Adams Tract property in Bolin Creek. And Orange County paid for a lot of Bolin Creek Greenway. Denying access to the Bolin Creek trail would be a travesty to the disabled. The same people were happy when the county helped buy the land. Yet now they only want the most agile people in the neighborhood allowed in. I think the environmental arguments are just euphemisms for keeping the general public out, including the disabled, of public lands. This is just like the old Republican Southern strategy for obtaining votes in the South in the late \u00e2\u20ac\u212260s. Except this time it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the political left using a convoluted environmental argument, and they are not being honest about their intentions. While I am a leftist, I could never possibly agree with the elitist arguments that they are using to bamboozle the Carr-boro Board of Alder people. Tell it like it is; you just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want anyone to access what you think is your land. This is public land. I will continue to stand up for disability equality as loudly and as often as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie L. Nichols I find your Flora columns fascinating and informative, specifically the 2\/4\/10 issue connecting Avatar to nature. It is most imperative that all citizens be allowed to partake in nature observations. Unfortunately, in this same issue there was a disturbing letter (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carrboro misguided,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 2\/4\/10), symbolizing a trend. 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