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CHAPEL HILL AWARDED OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CLIMATE PROTECTION

The city of Chapel Hill issued the following press release:

Mayor Kevin Foy accepted the Outstanding Achievement Award on behalf of the Town of Chapel Hill during the 2008 Mayors' Climate Protection Awards Program. Sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the awards recognize and honor mayors for outstanding and innovative practices to increase energy efficiency in their cities and to help curb global warming.

Chapel Hill was recognized for creating a fare free transit system on a communitywide basis. Since Chapel Hill Transit became fare free in 2001, it has become the second largest transit system in North Carolina. Since that time ridership has risen from 3 ...

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