Since Jacksonville’s Rails-to-Trail path opened in 2008, its detractors have said that the path was not safe, that it would allow criminals to walk from Downtown through the Bellfork Homes area on Bellfork Road and along the Camp Lejeune housing areas of Tarawa Terrace across Highway 24. These detractors couldn’t be more wrong. The Jacksonville [...]
The Military Growth Task Force is seeking comment on the Transportation Demand Management Plan currently in development. There is an online survey and a public workshop scheduled for commuters in the Jacksonville-New River-Camp Lejeune areas. If you’re a commuter (whether by automobile, public transportation or bicycle), I recommend that you complete the survey and attend [...]
Below is the agenda for August’s meeting for the Trails and Greenways Commission. AGENDA JACKSONVILLE TRAILS & GREENWAYS COMMISSION Monday, August 16, 2010 6:00 P.M. Senior Center – Community Room I. CALL TO ORDER – Introduction REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES – Approval of July’s meeting minutes PRESENTATIONS – None OLD BUSINESS – Update [...]
Joel Roberson, Jr. was killed at Jacksonville’s Western Blvd intersection with Gateway North early on an April morning as he was bicycling to his job at a local McDonald’s. Roberson was riding on the roadway’s shoulder, right of the fog line, and was doing everything right. Marine Sergeant Bryan Gullett, of MCAS New River’s VMMT-204 Osprey [...]
It’s been too long since I’ve posted and for that I’m sorry. It seems like the hours and days seem to speed by so quickly that there’s barely enough time to do the required stuff. It makes the nice-to-do stuff fall by the wayside. I’ve ridden the Day-Tripper to work three days this week. That [...]
The Jacksonville Daily News has published a letter to the editor I sent regarding Mike McHugh’s column on gasoline prices in the Jacksonville-Swansboro-Onslow County area. You can read the letter below or visit the Jacksonville Daily News’ version, but be sure to read McHugh’s column first. Disagree with my letter? Support it? Let me know [...]
It was a harsh winter in NC and that, along with my laziness, kept me from riding to work…And generally anywhere else. So there’s been a lot of driving. And I’ve been in several nearly-accidents. Just today I was almost hit twice by the same car! And the traffic…I’ve spent uncountable hours behind the wheel [...]
The City of Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission meets Monday, May 17th at 6PM at the Jacksonville Commons Senior Center located at the Commons Recreation Center. I recommend and ask that anyone interested in expanding Jacksonville’s trails and greenways and making our community more accessible to bicycle and pedestrian traffic attend the Commission’s meetings and [...]
It’s a new year. And that means new goals. Many of my goals are the same as last year…Goals that I’ve failed at achieving. But, we never let failure stop us from trying to succeed. We’d really never get anything done if we did! There’s a number of things I want to do this year. [...]
It’s been no secret that I haven’t been bicycle commuting the last few months (since September). It started with an illness and has just been snowballing after that. So, as I’ve been driving to my office aboard Camp Lejeune, I’ve spent plenty of time in stop-and-go traffic. This has afforded me to observe bicyclists’ behavior [...]
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