I guess you could call it the warning bell. On the Town Council’s Consent Agenda for tonight’s business meeting is commitment of town money toward the cost of putting sidewalks along the Weaver Dairy Road widening project. Yes, first efforts seem to have begun in the long-aborning state project, which would three-lane the 2.74-mile length […]
Down the road
Posted by Don Evans on February 22, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/22/down-the-road/
The usual suspects
Some nitwit phoned in a bomb threat against the Greenbridge construction site on Thursday. Chapel Hill police responded to the report and work was suspended at the West Rosemary Street site. According to a news release from Greenbridge, the threat didn’t affect the project’s schedule – only caused a two-hour delay in starting the workday […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 19, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/19/the-usual-suspects/
A better class of deer
I hadn’t noticed the deer chowing down on what’s left of my yard in some weeks, and I wondered whether some calamity had befallen the herd. Of course, they’ve pretty much stripped my yard clean. All that’s left are a few nubs of plants, so there’s not much to beckon them to revisit. Still, even […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 18, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/18/a-better-class-of-deer/
Road work
There was a lot of concern about traffic corridors voiced Monday night at the Town Council hearing on the long-range transit plan – but not on the corridor you might have expected. The Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard/N.C. 86 corridor had received the most attention in recent years because it was to provide primary road […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 17, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/17/road-work/
Can we drive this magic bus?
One point that couldn’t be missed from last night’s Town Council public hearing on transit is that there are likely to be a whole lot more buses rumbling back and forth along Chapel Hill and Carrboro streets in our future. Planners expect that by 2035 there will be about 30 percent more people living in […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 16, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/16/can-we-drive-this-magic-bus/
Accountable
At a recent Town Council meeting, several members encouraged Chapel Hill voters to put the county commissioners candidates’ feet to the fire about the public library funding inequities. It was great political theater, hearing Jim Ward and Laurin Easthom bob their heads and look at one another and do their “Uh huh! Yeah! It’s an […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 12, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/12/accountable/
A source of extra revenue
On Monday night, the executive director of the Orange County Visitors Bureau, Laurie Paolicelli, gave the Town Council scads of information about how important tourism is for Chapel Hill, how the town has a lot of features that visitors look for when considering a destination, and how much money tourism generates for town businesses and […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 9, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/09/a-source-of-extra-revenue/
Spending on people, not things
By any measure, town workers did a bang-up job preparing the town for last weekend’s snow storm and clearing roadways in the storm’s aftermath. They worked overtime and through the weekend to make sure life returns to normal for the rest of us. I was amazed at how quickly things got back to normal, because […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 5, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/05/spending-on-people-not-things/