American Tobacco Trail Alert - Brief Closure of ATT New Hill-Olive Chapel Road Parking Facility

[Bill Bussey]

Hi Friends of the American Tobacco Trail,

Wake County American Tobacco Trail Manager, Tony D'Amico asked us to 
pass along that the ATT* New Hill-Olive Chapel Road Parking Access will 
be closed starting at 8 am Monday, August 28 through Thursday, August 
31.* The parking area will reopen, Friday, September 1st.

Contractors will be making improvements to the New Hill park entrance 
and need this amount of
time to complete the work.

Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

The Wimberly and White Oak entrances and all trail sections will still 
be open.

Please contact Tony D'Amico at Tony.D'Amico at co.wake.nc.us  (work) 
387-4328 if you have any questions.

Also, on another note, Theodore Voorhees, Durham Deputy City Manager, 
has informed us that City of Durham has executed a contract with 
engineering firm Kimley-Horn to serve as their "Project Manager" to 
finalize the design contract scope and to complete other tasks necessary 
to enter into a design contact with Parsons Brinkerhoff to design Phase 
E of the American Tobacco Trail.

This would include the trail from the current end at NC 54 at Southpoint 
Crossing Shopping Center, the I-40 bridge and trail in southern Durham 
to the Chatham County line.

More details will follow. Apparently Kimley-Horn will be assisting the 
City staff with various contracting issues. Parsons Brinkerhoff will 
still handle the public involvement process once their contracting 
process is completed.

This is a step in the right direction, and is great news! Thank you for 
all of your support. We understand that the petition 
<http://www.petitiononline.com/att2/>and personal contacts by several of 
you, played a role in getting Durham staff and officials to finally move 
on this. We'll keep up with this and let you know news as it develops.

If you still haven't signed the petition 
<http://www.petitiononline.com/att2/>, now up to over 1100 names, there 
is still time to do so. We are planning to formally present this 
petition to City Council at a future meeting.

On another note, the Chatham County portion of the American Tobacco 
Trail, maintained by TRTC and accessed from O'Kelly Chapel Road has just 
been mowed. This includes a mile of trail north of of O'Kelly Chapel 
Road to the still undecked Northeast Creek trestle, as well as south 1.4 
miles to the undecked Panther Creek trestle. This would be an excellent 
time to visit this section. Construction should begin on this section 
within the next year.

We are hoping to have the trail north of New Hope Church Road mowed 
within the next week. Check out these grass, gravel and clay surfaced 
trail sections when you can.

Thank you for your support of the American Tobacco Trail.

Happy Trails,

Bill Bussey
Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
www.triangletrails.org
919 545-9104



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