{"id":887,"date":"2005-12-09T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T14:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=887"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:13:30","slug":"getting-there-to-the-grind-and-in-the-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/getting-there-to-the-grind-and-in-the-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting there &#8211; to the Grind and in the Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First important news! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygrindespressocafe.com\/\">The Daily Grind<\/a> is accessible again. We&#8217;ve had to weave through Student Stores for coffee and tea for what seems like forever, but now the fence that blocked us from the beloved Grind is down and you can walk right into the Grind! But all is not completely clear, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/constructionwatch.unc.edu\/\">UNC ConstructionWatch<\/a> work on the Daniels aka Student Stores Building will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpc.unc.edu\/Construction\/Projects.asp?Project=156\">continue through December 2006.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofchapelhill.org\/index.asp?NID=26\">Councilman<\/a>, Triangle Transportation Board member, and <a href=\"http:\/\/orangepolitics.org\/2005\/12\/bill-strom-wins-goodmon-award\/\">Goodmon Award winner<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofchapelhill.org\/index.asp?NID=14\">Bill Strom<\/a> replies to my forwarding him notice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/transit\">Google Transit&#8217;s Portland only transit planning maps<\/a> by sending me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/RideTTA.org\">RideTTA<\/a> which does the same thing for the Triangle and does, to my mind, a better job too. Unfortunately, the maps all tell me to walk over a mile to get on the transit grid just to get started. Others might be better situated to take advantage of RideTTA.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Bill writes again to say that if there is no bus stop within .25 miles of you, Chapel Hill Transit will send a shuttle to you. I don&#8217;t mind a little walking but I might try a shuttle to start a trip to Raleigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First important news! The Daily Grind is accessible again. We&#8217;ve had to weave through Student Stores for coffee and tea for what seems like forever, but now the fence that blocked us from the beloved Grind is down and you can walk right into the Grind! But all is not completely clear, according to UNC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}