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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. -v <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: APRIL 16, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: PROCLAMATION FOR TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES WEEK <br />---- _ ---- --------- ------- _.._----- --------- --- ------------ ----- ----- <br />DEPARTMENT: COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X <br />ATTACHMENT(S): YES INFORMATION CONTACT: MOSES CAREY,JR. <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER - <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -5401 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />------------------------------------- _---- ..____----- --- --- - <br />PURPOSE: To proclaim April 21st - 27th as Transportation Alternatives <br />Week. <br />BACKGROUND: Activities for this event include the following: <br />1. Posters will be printed highlighting alternative transportation modes <br />such as car -van pooling, busing, biking or walking. These "Kick the <br />Driving Habit" posters will be distributed throughout the Triangle <br />area. <br />2. The Triangle Network for Transportation will be collecting and <br />distributing informational and education facts to the area media and <br />encouraging P.S.A.'s and stories by reporters. <br />3. The Transportation Alternatives week activities will start in <br />Carrboro on April 20th and in Durham on April 21st. This <br />proclamation will be displayed. They will ask people to pledge to <br />use an alternative to the single- occupancy automobile at least once <br />during the week. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Approve the Proclamation proclaiming April 21st - -April <br />27th as Transportation Alternatives Week. <br />