Neppalli: No word yet on one-way streets

Chapel Hill town traffic engineer Kumar Neppalli is not ready to say how he'll advise the Town Council on the proposed one-way pairing of North Graham and Merritt Mill roads around the Greenbridge project.

Neighboring businesspeople oppose the one-way plan, which is aimed at easing and making deliveries more safely to the seven- and 10-story condominium towers over the next seven months. 

Forty-seven people signed a petition calling the pairing "poorly thought out." The petition was given to the council Monday night by Rob Stephens, a member of the community organizing group United With Northside Community Now. The petition was signed by people affiliated with Tar Heel Taxi, Back Alley Bikes, Passport Motors, Midway Barber Shop, Cut Above, America Tax Service, Dollars Tax, Stephanie's Hair Braiding and DeLaine House of Beauty.

Neppalli says he reviewed the petition Tuesday and will be working on a recommendation to the town manager over the weekend.

Some Town Council members expressed surprise at the proposed one-way routing of the streets Monday night. Will Raymond, a town advisory board member, noted on our previous post that the town reviewed a consultant's recommendation for making part of Meritt Mill Road one way and rejected it. You can see the town report on that here.