Texas Bicycling News Digest August 27th 2019
Hotter’N Hell Hundred, August 24, 2019, Wichita Falls, Texas
Roy Pedal Pushers | roy-pedalpushers.blogspot.com
an Angelo turn out for the 2019 ride.
I heard everything from 8,900 to 14,000 attendees. Take your pick. …
… From the start I held back and gave people plenty of room. Within a mile of the start was the first pile up. …
Austin Bicyclist 2019 Death #3: Unknown Male
A DUDE ABIKES | adudeabikes.com
I have been thinking that it is good news that no more bicyclists have been killed in Austin, Texas since Anthony John Diaz and Jessica Saathoff died earlier this year (which is two too many). Then I did a general search for bicyclist and Austin, and learned this sad news. A man died in the hospital after being hit at a busy intersection of the interstate highway and a regional highway service roads. There is very little information at this point, but it’s important to report and also remember that bicycling, when done carefully and …
Safe Kids Austin: Biking to school
By Amanda Salinas | www.fox7austin.com
AUSTIN, Texas (FOX 7 Austin) – Christopher Stanton with Ghisallo has more on what parents should know if their kids are biking to school.
KILLEEN, TX – BICYCLE ACCIDENT ON W STAN SCHLUETER LOOP RESULTS IN INJURIES
www.thebentonlawfirm.com
Killeen, TX (August 26, 2019) – On August 26, at approximately 8 a.m., emergency crews responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on West Stan Schlueter Loop.
According to reports, a Killeen Independent School District Employee was on the way to work, riding a bicycle. As the bicyclist attempted to cross West Stan Schlueter Loop at Littlerock Drive, they were struck by a motor vehicle. …
Hike and Bike Trail parkland could be run by a nonprofit, rather than the City of Austin
by: Yoojin Cho | www.kxan.com
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A group of land use experts is in town this week to explore the possibility of the Trail Foundation taking over the operation and management of Austin’s Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail.
Right now, Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) spends about $1 million a year on trail maintenance, mowing, hazardous tree work, storm water control and …
Texas Transportation Commission to Act on Funding for I-30 Improvements Project
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(ROCKWALL, TX — August 27, 2019) The Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) will meet on Thursday, Aug. 29 to consider approval of the 2020 Unified Transportation Program, which would officially green light TxDOT’s massive I-30 improvements project from Dalrock Road to FM 2642 in Rockwall County. …
… Widening I-30 from six main lanes (three lanes in each direction) to eight main lanes (four lanes in each direction) from Dalrock Road to SH 205, and reconstruct the four discontinuous frontage roads (two lanes in each direction) to six-lane continuous frontage roads (three lanes in each direction), to include 12-foot-wide and eight-foot-wide bicycle and pedestrian paths crossing Lake Ray Hubbard. …
First time at Oak Cliff Nature Preserve
Kcam23 | forums.mtbr.com
I had the opportunity to ride at OCNP for the first time yesterday, and WOW! It would appear that my jumping skills from younger years have slightly evaded me. I still hit as many as my body would allow, but I have some bumps and bruises to show for it. The trail was great, and many props to the stewards. I did get lost on some of the extra bandit trails that have been added, but still had a blast. Unfortunately, you can’t control the neighborhood surrounding it.
When I arrived, there were 4 other vehicles in the trailhead parking lot, and none of them had bike racks. I did see one couple come out from hiking, but …
Keep it 100: What to know before your first century ride
By Johanna Gretschel | www.austin360.com
The exhaustion really set in around mile 75. I still had a quarter of the way to go in my first-ever century ride, and the wheels were starting to come off — not literally, luckily, but tell that to my aching quads.
We were somewhere in Delaware, just outside of Bethany Beach, which would be our final destination in the day’s 100-mile cycling expedition from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland. My extended family — a slew of aunts, cousins and family friends in the mid-Atlantic — has organized the DIY-style ride for the past nine years, complete with a fully functioning SAG (support and gear) crew, pit stops every …