# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOJWeKEjcWP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34060116-chapelboronews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-03T16:03:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

## Caption

The site of some past pedestrian and vehicle collisions in Chapel Hill is getting a preventative upgrade to its infrastructure.

The Town of Chapel Hill and North Carolina Department of Transportation partnered to add a crosswalk, pedestrian island and RRFBs (rectangular rapid flashing beacons) to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which is currently under construction. The pedestrian features are located between Taylor Street and Critz Drive, across the street from a BP gas station and convenience store.

Updating the infrastructure is part of the town government’s Vision Zero pledge and safety goals, which aim to “eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2031.” The stretch of MLK Boulevard is important to those, considering two pedestrians have died while crossing the street — one in Feb. 2018 and another in Dec. 2022. According to the town’s dashboard tracking reported pedestrian and bicycle collisions, four other incidents have happened around the stretch of road in recent years.

“That has been a really dangerous area — we’ve had horrible, horrible accidents there and fatalities,” Chapel Hill Mayor Jess Anderson told 97.9 The Hill when discussing the updates. “The town’s Vision Zero safety team worked really closely with NCDOT engineers to test out multiple options for the crosswalk. As part of the project, we’re also filling a 150-foot gap in the sidewalk nearby, so that’s also a winner.

“Safety’s been an issue, a huge concern there for quite a while,” Anderson added, “so I’m really glad to have a new, safer way for people to cross and to navigate in that area.”

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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#chapelhill #mlkjrblvd #crosswalk #pedestrian #pedestriansafety #ncdot

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pedestrian, mlkjrblvd, pedestriansafety, crosswalk, chapelhill, ncdot

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