East End Connector

The Independent has their article on the East End Connector up, and it's quite good, to be honest. Close readers of DE know that i've been a public supporter of building this road, mainly because it will eventually take as many as 25,000 vehicles per day off of our neighborhood streets, like Duke, Gregson, Avondale, and Roxboro, and give them a means to get from north Durham to RTP that doesn't turn those streets and others into uncrossable rivers of traffic.

After the City Council approved the so-called Alternative 3 for the route of the connector in February, it also agreed to establish an ad hoc committee to help ensure that residents, homeowners and business affected by the Connector are fairly compensated, receive adequate reloaction assistance where needed, and have the impact to their lives and neighborhoods minimized. I'm sitting on that committee and, like most other committee members i declined to be interviewed for the Indy article, for reasons that i think are obvious.

I'm hopeful that our job hasn't gotten even more difficult as a result.