Wheels Turning Slowly

The Colington Road Multi-Use Path Committee recently posted 2,700 letters, one to each property owner on the islands and the adjoining Baum Tract. Here is one response sent to our email address ncsr1217@gmail.com

"I live in Colington Pointe and would love to help with this project.  I would love a way to get past the bridge on a bike or on foot. I can only see it as adding value to this area....  I would use it every day.  I also have a 3 year old that will be attending First Flight and when she is older it would be great to have a way for her to safely ride a bike there - or to the Wright Bros park."

The immediate work for all of us that want to see this become a reality as soon as possible is getting a viable plan. Please add your voice to NCDOT asking for their help in designing this. Address your email or phone call to Lauren Blackburn—her e-mail is lablackburn2@ncdot.gov and her number is (919) 707-2601. She is the Director of the Division of Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation.

And pass this post along!

As a point of information photos you see in this blog are current at the time of posting and are taken along Colington Road.

Just Wanna

Just wanna go a'fishing

Just wanna go to school

Gonna get there anyway

But a path will be so cool

I know you think I'm doing fine

Strolling side the thick white line

But the cars get kinda near

Makes me tremble with some fear

Just wanna catch some dinner

Just wanna get back home

Gonna get there anyway

Hoping no cars decide to roam

We LOVE Steve Lambert & ARPO

Progress of a different sort.

Church curve is finally being eliminated. Three years behind schedule but now becoming a reality.

The next funded for scheduled work on Colington Road is a slight widening with added four foot shoulders on both sides. Acquisition is not due to start for a couple of years yet. And then construction.

And so meanwhile we plug away at finding alternative and safe ways to get non-vehicular traffic from any point on Colington Road to the beach.

Some say that only DUI and beer buyers use the road  without the advantage of a vehicle so why bother to help them.

We reply that many, many more would use a safe pathway if it were available. No one with any other way to travel is going to travel alongside the road now.

Those that we do see walking or cycling have no other choice. Just because they might have a DUI, they still need to get to work, to the doctor, to the grocery. And safely.

A typical moment at just about any time of the day along Colington Road. Do we really want our teens going to school or the beach negotiating this traffic on a road with no shoulder.

Finally a huge shout out to Steve Lambert and the ARPO for funding a mailing to all Colington residents describing the problem and asking for suggestions.