GREENSBORO, NC -- The Greensboro City Council will vote on an item tomorrow night that will likely seem routine and receive no scrutiny. It is to authorize over $1,000,000.00 in expenditures to relocate water and sewer lines for the purpose of accomodating the extention of the "urban loop" from Bryan Boulevard to Lawndale Drive. This portion of the loop will bisect and destroy one of Greensboro's jewels, that being the area encompassing, Country Park, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park and the adjacent network of trails and bikepaths that extend from there to the shores of Lake Brandt.
Currently, this area is able to maintain an environment that can accommodate peaceful and natural recreation and wildlife. It's unusual for a city our size to have natural areas like this unmolested enough to still support deer, fox, hawks and owls. But, in her race to the lowest common denominator, Greensboro has decided that if other cities have urban loops, we should have one too. To hell with what must be mowed, and plowed and destroyed to make way for it. Put a damn freeway through Greensboro's most special natural recreation area. That's the ticket!
A few years from now, when the area starts to look like just another Wendover Avenue, just another over-developed, mundane and aggravating endless strip of Anywhere, U.S.A, remember we had our chances along the way to say, "Wait a minute, do we really want to do this?"
And we said yes.
Why they have not recognized after all these years that the road should have been moved north, way north, it is beyond me. This and all the things happening in our city and all we get from the MSM is a dying newspaper's web site that doesn't work and stories about a local reporters job dancing for the Golden State Warriors.
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