How did Health Festival Go?

[Bill Bussey]

Hi Moria,

I'll copy this to the rest of the Board and to the volunteer list 
because you make some good points.

Yep, we *do *get a lot of questions on the Chatham bridges. Thanks to 
the efforts of our weekly volunteer workdays, LOTS of trail users see 
the undecked trestles on both the Durham and Wake sides. If it weren't 
for the great work of our volunteers, very few trail users would even 
know about the gaps caused by these undecked trestles because they 
couldn't easily get there to see them.

Thanks to you all for your great work on the Chatham and Durham 
sections. This proves that what you are doing is very valuable and a 
service to the community.

Those Cary Greenway maps are literally hot off the press. We were 
fortunate to get them for this event. I'm pretty sure that lots more 
will be available at Spring Daze and other upcoming events in Cary, as 
well as at the Parks and Rec. office.

Raleigh does or used to have a similar map. It may be out of print. I've 
got one somewhere in my pile of maps. I think this is the link to the 
online version 
<http://www.ncdot.org/_includes/download/external.html?pdf=http%3A//dotw-xfer01.dot.state.nc.us/gisdot/DOTBikeMaps/_Raleigh/raleigh.pdf>. 
Dave C. may know more about it.

It wasn't as large a scale as Cary's. Of course, Raleigh is bigger! 
Raleigh is working on a new Bicycle Plan that is being done by Greenways 
Inc. My guess is that a map of similar sort will come out of that effort.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks also for these insightful comments. And thanks for the great work 
this weekend.

Happy Trails,

Bill B.


Moria Smoski wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>  
> The festival went well!  Though we do have plenty of maps left.  :-)  
> (Both ATT and Cary Greenway maps, actually.)  When I was there Sunday 
> afternoon we had three Environmental Service students there as well.  
> A couple of impressions -- Frank and Dan, feel free to throw in your 
> $0.02 on these thoughts.
>  
> - I was surprised to get as many, if not more, questions about the 
> Chatham Co bridges as the I-40 bridge.  Nice to hear people being 
> excited about that section of the trail!
>  
> - People really liked the Cary Greenways maps, and there were lots of 
> requests for a similar Raleigh map (and complaints about the usability 
> of the Raleigh maps on their parks website).
>  
> - Apparently NBC17.com is launching a health-focused section of their 
> website, and may be contacting you (via the embarq address on our 
> website) for further info on trail use.
>  
> --Moria
>
>  
> On 5/20/08, *Bill Bussey* <billbus at gte.net <mailto:billbus at gte.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Frank, Dan and Moria,
>
>     How did the Health Festival go?
>
>     Did you give away all of the maps? ;-)
>
>     I did finally make it to Wilmington and had a great time. The
>     extra $40 for moving my flight till Saturday morning was the best
>     $40 I've ever spent!
>
>     However, I did miss you guys and thought about you often during
>     the meetings on Saturday and Sunday.
>
>     Please let me know how it went!
>
>     Happy Trails,
>
>     Bill B.
>
>
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