Rhino Times editor John Hammer on the progress of Greensboro’s downtown greenway:
I won’t promise it but I will consider endorsing any City Council candidate who will sign an affidavit promising to finish the Downtown greenway in my lifetime. I’m 63 and seem to be in good health, so that should give them enough time. This project began in 2001 and it is not even approaching completion.
What is this vastly complicated project that has stumped the City of Greensboro? It is a wide sidewalk. That’s all it is….I’m going out on a limb here, but I’m predicting that the Tanger Center for the Performing Arts will be completed before the Downtown Greenway. In fact, based on its current rate of completion, the Tanger may have been opened, been a wonderful venue for 30 years and have been torn down by the time the Greenway is completed.
I’m a little younger than Hammer, and I’m just hoping they’ll finish the section running along Fisher Avenue in my lifetime.
