Southern Kind of Life

Following up on the previous planning meeting for designing the pedestrian bridge over I-40 for the American Tobacco Trail, it looks like there will be a new meeting on April 29 at 7pm in the 1st floor City Council Chambers at City Hall in Durham.  This is to discuss the concepts for the pedestrian bridge over I-40 for American Tobacco Trail - Phase E that will also include paving the ATT all the way to the Chatham county border.

I rode my bike from south Durham up to the first meeting and depending on my schedule I hope to go to this upcoming meeting.  I really want to see this bridge built as I think it will be very good for promoting bicycle and pedestrian travel between downtown and southern Durham.  There were quite a few people at the last meeting and I hope more people come to this one so that we show city leaders that this is an important project.

Phillip Barron and Jack Edinger have started a project to create maps of local triangle bike maps. It looks like they’ve got a good start at lots of road bike lanes and greenway trails. They seem to be a bit lacking for mountain bike trails, but they are asking for more collaborators. This looks like a great project and I encourage people to go look and offer to help.