Triad needs more transportation options
When it comes to making bicycling a viable transportation alternative, the Triad is subpar. There are some bike trails and bike lanes in the Greensboro area, but not enough. Folks take their lives into their own hands when they bicycle on most of our streets.
Take the thoroughfares between High Point and Greensboro, the county's two biggest cities. This relatively flat area would be ideal for bicycle lanes. Yet Wendover Avenue and High Point Road are conspicuously without them. Why were urban planners dismissive of bike lanes during all of the recent Triad growth and expansion?
There is talk of railroad right-of-ways eventually being used for greenways and perhaps even bike paths. What can be done now? The Triad has six colleges and/or universities. Many students would avail themselves of this optional mode of transportation, just as they do in other college towns with appropriate accommodations.
Urban rail, additional roads and highways, and expanding bus service always seem to be at the forefront of transportation planning. Let's broaden the scope of transportation options by focusing on a healthy, air-friendly alternative that would improve the quality of every resident's life in the Triad.
Bob Lowe
Greensboro
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Good letter.
IIRC, there is (or was) a plan to eventually connect the Greensboro and High Point greenways. That trail would cross Wendover down by Bicentennial Park and head north from there.
That would be a very roundabout and excessively long way to commute between the two cities though.
Posted on August 2, 2005 7:26 AM