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Texas Bicycling News Digest February 25th 2016

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Where the sidewalk ends

By Amy Denney communityimpact.com

City, advocates weigh options for funding sidewalks, bike facilities

As Austin City Council weighs options for the next mobility bond election, bicycle and pedestrian advocates are urging the city to include funding in the next bond for carrying out the bicycle and sidewalk master plans.
Advocacy group Bike Austin launched a petition Jan. 22 calling for the city to completely fund its Bicycle Master Plan and build most critical missing sidewalk segments and urban trails. The group …

Grand Parkway Ride

www.thegrandparkwayride.com


Would you like to have the chance to ride on a brand new major roadway in the greater Houston area with no traffic on the road except bicycles? Through a unique partnership that includes the Texas Department of Transportation, Zachry-Odebrecht Parkway Builders, the United Methodist Church, and the YMCA, in connection with the celebration of the opening of the Grand Parkway on the north side of Houston, that opportunity is coming on Saturday, March 19th! Funds generated by this ride will go …

The Fate of Houston’s New Bike Plan Is Pretty Much in the Hands of Drivers

By Meagan Flynn www.houstonpress.com


Judith Cruz Villarreal has heard some version of “Get your ass on the sidewalk!” countless times while biking through Houston, in the bike lane. Despite the fact that drivers are protected by a ton of metal, they’re often the ones yelling, Cruz Villarreal said, often unaware that bicyclists are just as entitled to use the road as they are.
“They always want to push us onto the sidewalk,” she said. “A lot of people don’t know that we’re allowed to be on the streets, that it’s illegal for us to be on the sidewalk.”
That’s the attitude from drivers that Cruz Villarreal and hundreds of other bike commuters like her …

TX: Houston Bike Plan Will Take Shape Slowly, Supporters Say

by Dug Begley and Mike Morris www.masstransitmag.com

For the first time in more than two decades, Houston has a detailed strategy to improve bicycling — an ambitious but mostly unfunded plan to enhance bike culture in one of the nation’s most car-focused cities.
The Houston Bike Plan identifies $300 million to $500 million in improvements aimed at encouraging cycling and bringing more accessibility to every corner of the city via new paths, off-street trails and safer lanes where cyclists share the road with drivers.
A key goal of the plan is to …

Buoyed by support, Giant-Alpecin’s Chad Haga looks ahead

By Pat Malach www.cyclingnews.com

Four weeks after head-on collision, American is thinking about 2016 Grand Tours
Just over four weeks on from needing to be airlifted from the scene of his head-on crash with an automobile while training with Giant-Alpecin teammates in Spain, Chad Haga is training on a limited basis and thinking about which Grand Tour he’ll get to ride this season.
The 27-year-old from Texas has been racing with the Dutch WorldTour team since 2014, when he finished his first Grand Tour at the …

Local doctor gives away nearly 4,000 bike helmets

kagstv.com

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – Today, almost 4,000 area students get to ride their bikes a little safer thanks to a local doctor, Andrew de Jong, because of his 8th annual Hard Hats for Little Heads event.
On average, 250 children in the United States under the age of 14 die each year because of a bicycle crash. Another 300,000 are treated in emergency rooms for …

TJC to start 90th anniversary celebration with bike ride

Betty Waters www.tylerpaper.com


The yearlong campaign will include students, alumni, past and present employees, board members and supporters.
TJC President Dr. Mike Metke, an avid fitness proponent and cycling enthusiast, will get the celebration rolling with the “90 for 90th” – a two-day, 90-mile bicycle tour spanning the length of TJC’s enrollment district, from …

This weekend’s rides: Reverse Triple Bs! Red Horn!

Thomas steinerranchcycling.com

This weekend while some of our crew (Andrew, Steve, Stuart, John, and Justin) are out kicking ass in back-to-back races (Bat City Classic on Saturday and Pace Bend on Sunday) we will be having some very enjoyable rides.
Saturday we will do the Triple Bs ride in reverse. This takes us out Anderson Mill to Parmer, and from there down Park street across Lakeline to the …

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