Texas Bicycling News Digest February 5th 2019
Houstonians Will Be Able to Bike and Walk 150 Miles of New Trails in 2020
By Gwendolyn Knapp | www.houstoniamag.com
Eight bayous will be connected through the $220 million Bayou Greenways 2020 project.
STANDING ATOP the new 485-foot pedestrian suspension bridge in Mason Park along Brays Bayou in the East End, it’s hard to believe you’re still in city limits, save for the skyscrapers rising to the west. Pelicans soar. Turtles sun themselves. Everywhere you look, there are blue jays, cormorants, egrets, ducks. A great blue heron presides over newly planted wetlands. A bald eagle is rumored to live upstream.
You can bike here from Hermann Park along the Brays Bayou Greenway, a 10-foot-wide path that currently dead-ends at a railroad trestle just beyond the park. Soon …
A Texas Cup that Strives for Equality
www.austinfitmagazine.com
Has gender equality in prize payout finally arrived for Texas bike racing? A few good men are seeing that it does.
This is just a brief summary of the Texas Cup — a competition where riders earn points in road races across the state — as told by TXBRA (Texas Bike Racing Association) Vice President, Andrew Willis.
The Texas Cup was established in 2000 and at the end of each year awards the top three winners in each recognized category. Willis, who assumed the position late last year and is a long-time race director of the Holland Racing Driveway Series, has been working with …
Video: Route, after party plans announced for 2019 Tour de Houston
By Aaron Barker | www.click2houston.com
HOUSTON – Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner held a news conference Tuesday to announce plans for the 2019 Tour De Houston.
The city’s annual bike race presented by Apache Corporation is set for St. Patrick’s Day and will be celebrating its 14th year as a Houston sporting event. …
First Bike Ride (9:00-12:00)
The Hockaday School | www.activekids.com
Monday, June 3, 2019 – Friday, June 7, 2019 Co-Ed The Hockaday School • 11600 Welch Rd Dallas, TX 75229 Coach Stewart Ball and his staff of coaches have taught hundreds of children to ride a bike. Let us teach you to ride in this popular, low pressure, enjoyable class. All you need is a bike, helmet, water bottle, and snack. Bikes can be kept on campus throughout the week’s class. …
First Bike Ride (9:00-12:00)
Monday, June 10, 2019 – Friday, June 14, 2019 Co-Ed The Hockaday School • 11600 Welch Rd Dallas, TX 75229 …
First Bike Ride (9:00-12:00)
Monday, June 17, 2019 – Friday, June 21, 2019 Co-Ed The Hockaday School • 11600 Welch Rd Dallas, TX 75229
Bayou Greenway Day 2019
by Houston Parks Board | www.eventbrite.com
Join in on the family fun on your Bayou Greenway!
Houston Parks Board invites you to its fifth annual Bayou Greenway Day, a free outdoor festival at Mason Park for a day of fun with family and friends. Experience the beauty of Brays Bayou Greenway while enjoying free activities in Mason Park – the site of the recently completed Mason Park Pedestrian Bridge.
Bayou Greenway Day is a celebration of Houston’s parks, trails, and your Bayou Greenways. The annual event provides families with an opportunity to enjoy greenspace as they walk, bike, run, stroll, play and picnic along Brays Bayou. Event festivities will be provided by Houston nonprofits, …
City launches interactive park map
By A-J Media | www.lubbockonline.com
Lubbock’s Parks and Recreation Department launched a new interactive parks map Tuesday.
The map allows users to search the locations for amenities, walking trails, bike paths nearby parks and transportation. The map can be found on the park’s website, www.playlubbock.com.
“There are many detailed features that can be found in the map such as trees and their species, which picnic pavilions can be rented, where restrooms are located and …
Cyclist fatally struck by SUV near the Dominion was S.A. surgeon
By Caleb Downs | www.mysanantonio.com
The cyclist who police said was fatally struck by a drunken driver Monday evening was a surgeon with more than 20 years of experience in San Antonio.
Naji Tanios Kayruz, 58, was cycling in the 21000 block of Interstate 10 West at about 5:15 p.m. when Melissa Nicole Peoples, 48, fatally hit him with her …
Officials release mugshot of woman accused of running over cyclist in BMW SUV near the Dominion
By Caleb Downs | www.mysanantonio.com
Officials on Tuesday afternoon released the mugshot of the woman accused of drunkenly running over a cyclist with her BMW SUV near the Dominion and then fleeing the scene.
Melissa Nicole Peoples, 48, was arrested shortly after the fatal collision on charges of intoxication manslaughter and failing to stop and render aid. Her bail for the two …
183 North Toll Project
owlman | bicycleaustin.info
CTRMA’s 183 North project is in the news as ramping up again. Not a lot of major bike infrastructure planned but it will certainly help close dangerous (and deadly) gaps for cyclists and pedestrians in northwest Austin.
https://communityimpact.com/austin/nort … st-austin/
http://www.183north.com/about/ …
Austin & U.S. bike/walk statistics
MichaelBluejay | bicycleaustin.info
AUSTIN From the City’s data portal:
#66: Bus ridership is flat. The number of bus trips is essentially flat from 2007 to 2015, which is a reduction in bus share since the population increased during that time.
#70: Sidewalk miles increasing. Streets with sidewalks went from 44% to 53% from 2013-17, a healthy 20% increase.
#71: Bicycle lane miles exploding. The …
BikeHouston Is Platinum
BikeHouston.org
We did it! BikeHouston is now a League of American Bicyclists recognized Platinum Level Bicycle Friendly Business!
We have now joined a cutting-edge group of over 1,300 local businesses, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies across the United States that are transforming the American workplace.
“Business owners and employers across the country are …
Volunteer Spotlight: Adrianna Gilman
BikeHouston.org
Our board of directors is a big part of what makes BikeHouston successful. Board members guide our work and help us build a bridge to our community.
In January we welcomed nine new members for a total of 20 directors. This week we interviewed new member, Adrianna Gillman.
Adrianna is an applied mathematics professor at Rice University. She will be bringing this background to BikeHouston to help expand our education program by building curriculum and working to …
February 2019 Director’s Report
BikeHouston.org
Want to know what we’ve been up to so far in 2019? Here it is!
Houston is encouraging more bike trips. The Mayor’s office invited BikeHouston to be a stakeholder in Houston’s Climate Change Study. BikeHouston will propose ways to reduce emissions by creating a city where we take more trips on a bike than in a car. In addition, the C40 Cities architects are returning to Houston from Paris and will meet with BikeHouston and the surrounding communities to discuss bike concepts for the Buffalo Bayou East Sector Velasco Incinerator site and the Holmes Road Landfill as part of the C40 Design Competition.
A BikeHouston supporter has put together a blue-ribbon committee of bike racing enthusiasts to see more bike exercise parks offering …
Help B-Rex “Get Hatchedâ€
BikeHuston.org
A bike-friendly dinosaur egg has been found in the Near Northside Neighborhood of Houston Texas. “Bike Rex†as locals are calling the creature, reportedly started to break out of its shell in October 2018. From what we can tell, the dino has started reveal a green hue on Lyons Avenue.
The head of B-Rex is predicted to break out next on Kelley, Hardy, and Elysian streets sometime in February with his spine to emerge thereafter on Austin and La Branch Streets. The spine will connect …
I wanna be a cowboy
TEXAS MTB | www.youtube.com
February 2nd-3rd 2019. Here’s all the shenanigans before the NICA race in Troy, Texas.
Students call for additional bike lanes on campus following cyclist death
BY NICOLE STUESSY | www.dailytexanonline.com
Samaa Al Adawi said she does not feel safe riding her bike on campus along San Jacinto Boulevard.
Even though the street has sharrows, defined by the Austin Department of Transporation as shared lane markings used on roads too narrow for separate bike lanes, petroleum engineering senior Adawi said this isn’t enough to make it safe because cyclists often ride with the normal flow of traffic. …
Cen-Tex Mysteries: Witch’s Castle in Cameron Park
Author: Jasmin Caldwell | www.kcentv.com
The supposed witch’s castle sits on a three-acre tract at 3613 Greenwood Drive. Waco surveyor John Kamenec set out to find the truth about the structure.
WACO, Texas — It’s a mystery that has loomed over Central Texas for nearly six decades.
There are people in the Waco area who claim there’s a ‘Witch’s Castle’ at Cameron Park, but is it real?
The supposed Witch’s Castle sits on a three-acre tract at 3613 Greenwood Drive. The piece of land was once known as Eagle Rock, which is the highest point in all the Cameron Park trail system.
All that’s left is a two-hole concrete outhouse and the frame of what used to be a house. The home was built in 1912, but it burned down in 1961 and became known as the Witch’s Castle.
“The story was that the …
Bike safety up for discussion as City Council looks to make El Paso bike-friendly
by Salina Madrid | kfoxtv.com
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — The City of El Paso is looking to increase bicycle safety across the borderland, to make El Paso more bike-friendly.
The project being discussed Tuesday is called the Local Transportation Advanced Funding Agreement.
This project was looked at last year, but due to the city not qualifying as an economically disadvantaged county, the …
How One Man Stayed Sane at Spin Class
BY MATT GOODMAN | www.dmagazine.com
Making peace with the absurdity of indoor cycling was the only way to keep me off my couch.
About a half-hour into class, around the time my thigh muscles began to feel as if they were evacuating my legs, the spin instructor shouted something that made me unreasonably angry.
“There is a reason why your windshield is bigger than your rearview mirror!â€
Group fitness classes are rife with these motivational platitudes. We are biking to nowhere, clipped into pedals, but urged to “leave what happened today outside.†We get reminded that “we’ve come …
Haarvarks Kemah Tuesday Shenanigans
Troy Serrano | www.strava.com
