“Bike month isn’t just about celebrating different ways of getting around, but it’s about celebrating and protecting the environment and what we’re all moving around in.”
The Town of Chapel Hill in collaboration with 97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com present “Our Town: Stories of Chapel Hill.” Each month you’ll hear from the people at the heart of your local government who are learning, serving, and working together to build a community where people thrive. This month, Alyson West from the Office of Mobility and Greenways and Brennan Bouma from Chapel Hill’s Sustainability team, tell the story of Bike Month in Chapel Hill.
Brennan Bouma: In Chapel Hill. There’s been decades of work going into making the bicycle, not just a fun way to recreate, to get your heart rate up, but also a functional transportation option.
Alyson West: We’re always looking to build out the transportation network for people who don’t want to use a car for every trip. Everybody should be able to get around, get where they need to go, get to work, get to school, get to their friend’s house, without having to get in a car. And those options should be safe, they should be convenient, they should be reliable. And if you think about it, there’s a large portion of the population who do not own a car, are not legally able to drive, if you’re under the age of 16, others who simply do not have that option. And we need to provide for those people…