Planning & Transportation
Today's DTH reports that Bill Strom is the 2005 winner of the Jim Goodmon Award for regional leadership by an elected official in the triangle.
The award will be presented by Leadership Triangle at a luncheon next week.
Bill has been a strong leader on the TTA Board of Directors, helped broker the purchase of Erwin Trace, and has worked on regional affordable housing initiatives with the Triangle J Council of Governments.
Bill is the first elected official from Orange County to receive this honor.
It's nice to see folks from around the triangle recognize the quality of one of our own elected officials!
This Saturday morning at 10:30 at Carrboro Town Hall, John Herrera will present a proposal to develop a “yellow bike†program that has proven very successful in many communities in the US and around the world.
Yellow bike projects provide free access to bicycles for municipal transportation. The objective is to reduce the use of short auto trips, cut down on congestion and pollution, and increase mobility. It is called yellow bike because the bikes are usually painted a bright yellow color to clearly identify them as belonging to the program.
Herrera will be joinedby members of Critical Mass, a bicyclist rights organization, and the Recylcery, which repairs and gives away old bikes.
After the presentation Carrboro bicyclists are invited to join Herrera and supporters for a bike tour around Carrboro. A more detailed statement and information will be available at the event.
A local group called Citizen Action for Responsible Roads (CARR) has conducted an "e-forum" for the Chapel Hill Town Council and Mayoral races. They e-mailed the candidates and published their responses online.
Here are the questions, check out their website to see the candidates' responses.
1. Explain why you support or oppose keeping Carolina North's automobile traffic off of Weaver Dairy Road, Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, and/or I-40.
2. Where should automobile entrances to Carolina North be located?
3. Describe why you support or oppose an automobile connector road between Larkspur and Eubanks Road.
4. What is your opinion of council's decision not to expand Weaver Dairy Road?
5. What's your philosophy in deciding where future regional transportation corridors should be located?
6. What's your position on UNC's plan to put 17,000 parking spaces at Carolina North?
7. What action should council take should NCDOT continue to drag out the improvements that have been approved for S. Columbia Street?
Any of you who watched The End of Suburbia recently should be ready for this: tomorrow is Car Free Day! If you pledge to go car free on the NC Car Free web site you can win a prize, and everyone is invited to Weaver Street Market to celebrate Car Free Day. (Considering that it's Thursday at 6pm, car-free is about the only way to get to WSM anyway.)
On September 22, 2005, Orange and Durham County citizens in North Carolina will join over 1400 cities and towns throughout the United States and 37 other countries in celebrating World Car Free Day. We'd like you to join the celebration! http://www.gocarfree.com
There will be an event at Weaver Street Market from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. on Car Free Day (Sept 22) with information about public transportation, carpooling, biodiesel, Village Project Concept Plans for Carolina North, and more!
The importance of streets to community was articulated by Ivan Illich in his essay Silence is a Commons. Here is the excerpt:
What a difference there was between the new and the old parts of Mexico City only 20 years ago. In the old parts of the city the streets were true commons. Some people sat on the road to sell vegetables and charcoal. Others put their chairs on the road to drink coffee or tequila. Others held their meetings on the road to decide on the new headman for the neighbourhood or to determine the price of a donkey. Others drove their donkeys through the crowd, walking next to the heavily loaded beast of burden; others sat in the saddle. Children played in the gutter, and still people walking could use the road to get from one place to another.
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