Have Your Say: How Can Greensboro Become a Car-Optional City?

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By South Guilford News Report

Oct 3, 2023

The City of Greensboro has set a goal to become a car-optional city by 2040. Now residents are being asked to help decide how to make that happen as part of GoBORO, the City’s long-range, public transit plan.

Residents are invited to take an online survey – available in English or Spanish at www.greensboro-nc.gov/GoBORO – to help set priorities for how the City might invest in its bus system, the Greensboro Transit Agency (GTA). Residents may also provide feedback directly to GoBORO ambassadors at one of a series of outreach events across the city in October and November.

“We’ve developed two concepts for systemwide improvements that would significantly increase residents’ ability to access jobs and other destinations with a combination of more frequent service and additional routes that reach new parts of the city,” said Transit Director Reginald Mason. “We need residents to help determine what the future of our bus system should be.”

The online survey will be open until November 15. GoBORO ambassadors will be at the following events.

GoBORO Public Outreach Schedule

October 1: Art in the Arboretum, 12-5 pm, Greensboro Arboretum, 401 Ashland Dr.
October 9: Ole Asheboro Neighborhood Association Meeting, 7-8 pm, Nettie Coad Apartments, 503 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.
October 12: Virtual Workshop, 6-7:30 pm, via Zoom. RSVP to attend.
October 21: Ghoulash! Halloween Festival, 2:30-5:30 pm, LeBauer Park, 208 N. Davie St.
October 24: GoBORO Open House, 11 am to 1 pm and 4-6 pm, J. Douglas Galyon Depot, 236 E. Washington St.
November 3: First Friday Event with Noches Latinas, 6:30-8 pm, Lebaur Park, 208 N. Davie St.
November 8: GoBORO Pop Up, 2-4 pm, Walmart at Pyramids Village, 2107 Pyramid Village Blvd.
November 8: Music in a Bottle, 6-8 pm, LeBauer Park, 208 N. Davie St.
November 14: GoBORO Pop Up with the Hopper Trolley, 11 am to 2 pm, South End downtown on Lewis Street

See detailed route concept maps and learn more about the GoBORO planning process at www.greensboro-nc.gov/GoBORO. For more information, contact GTA Marketing and Communications Manager Kevin Elwood at 336-412-6309.

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