Think Outside the Box

Dear DOT & Senator Marc,

We are organizing an awareness ride for Memorial Day Monday and will keep you posted on how the plans come together.

Senator Marc, we understand that a Colington citizen talked to you years ago about a multi-use path and you told her that there were too many squatters to feasibly execute this project. We say skip the squatters and strike out across the wetlands if need be. The path does not need to follow the road even step of the way. It just needs to connect Colington to the beach. Long overdue!

We know you advocate having Dare County be green, Senator Marc. Our mulit-use path would greatly increase the greenness of our environmentally conscious county. It is impossible to tell you how many riders and walkers a Colington multi-use path would see but I can tell you that it would be as heavily traveled as the road.

While there are already a goodly number of walkers and bikers that use the road as hazardous as it it, they do because they have no choice. Those of us that have a choice cannot bring ourselves to venture onto a life threatening road. Some say this project will never see fruition until a bad accident happens. Please do not let that be the catalyst for action.

Take this thing in segments. From Baum Bay to the first bridge looks really doable from our point of view. There looks to be plenty of easement without compromising existing homes or businesses. It could be done now. From the first bridge to the second also looks easy. It is more of a stretch. Break it into two parts, to Hilltop Cemetery for one and from there to the bridge for the second segment. From the second bridge to Colington Harbour is the tricky part. So here is where we strike out across the horizon and skip church curve although. Voila! We're finished. See how easy that was.

With your help it can be real!

Wright to Riders