Recently, French President Nicholas SARKOZY announced the consolidation of many local government structures. The result may be a more streamlined bureaucracy at the local level.
Imagine for a moment that Pittsboro, Hillsborough, Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Durham were all working together as one entity to serve the entire population. Imagine that we established uniformly superb schools throughout the area and that everything from food to transportation was better served in order to cover all needs and interests.
My impression is that competition over sales tax revenues, ego and a number of other factors really mess up the potential that we might otherwise realize and enjoy.
Fore example, imagine a Chapelboroham plan to offer buses and other coordinated transportation options for those wanting to make a shopping trip to COSTCO in Durham....instead of fighting over who gets the next "warehouse". It seems to me that it makes most sense to put it along 15-510 south of Chapel Hill, well-positioned so as to offer people here a chance to use it.
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