If you ask just about anyone in the Chapel Hill community, they can share a way the construction on North Estes Drive affected their travel. Especially, perhaps, Mayor Jess Anderson, who stood on the new sidewalks and bike path along the road to speak to a gathered crowd on Tuesday morning. “As the mayor and an Estes Drive neighbor,” she said, “I am doubly excited to cut the ribbon on this amazing new project that will allow everyone to bike, walk, roll – in strollers, wheelchairs, on the bus – to and from so many places nearby and throughout town.” While the closure to two-way vehicle traffic garnered much attention and frustration across two years of construction, the project itself along North Estes Drive is largely meant for those not in cars — as Anderson used the town’s over-sized pair of scissors to trim a ribbon and formally welcome people using the sidewalks. The road and sidewalks themselves were officially opened to all forms of traffic on Wednesday, June 12. The ribbon-c...