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Permanent pedestrian safety group to be named

Bill McCoy started a temporary pedestrian safety committee in January to study what could be done to make walking and riding around campus less dangerous.

Now, Chancellor James Moeser has agreed to establish a permanent committee to continue that work indefinitely.

In addition to University Public Safety Chief Derek Poarch, the new committee will consist of University transportation planner Ray Magyar and representatives from the Highway Research Center, Legal Counsel, Facilities Planning, the town of Chapel Hill and the state Department of Transportation. The Employee Forum, Faculty Council and undergraduate and graduate student bodies also will be represented.

Poarch will continue to chair the permanent committee, Moeser said. Moeser also directed Poarch to establish a pedestrian safety hotline, which was among the recommendations of the temporary committee that completed its work in May.

"Thank you for your excellent work in chairing the (temporary) Pedestrian Safety Committee," Moeser wrote Poarch in an Aug. 18 letter. "I am confident that, with your continued leadership, the new permanent committee will be equally effective."

In response to the committee's work, the state Department of Transportation implemented over the spring and summer several experimental measures to increase safety.

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