# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C8cia4bul_b
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- **Posted:** 2024-06-20T17:28:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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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-cutting was held to thank many of the Estes Drive residents and community members who had front-row seats to see the Estes Drive Connectivity Project unfold – both the construction of the sidewalks and road lanes and all of the utility work that added about one year to the length of the build-out. Anderson thanked the dozens of those in attendance for their “grace and humor” in adjusting to and dealing with the disruption, which even included residents bringing skeletons decorated in construction gear to Tuesday’s event.

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