Texas Biking News September 18th 2020
Funding to complete popular San Antonio trails system remains uncertain
by Jim Lefko | foxsanantonio.com
SAN ANTONIO – Howard Peak’s vision for a series of paths that would circle San Antonio has produced 80 miles of paved trails, attracting cyclists, joggers and dog walkers.
"It would be great to have a way to get all the way around the city," says Abel Ramirez, a long-time bike repair specialist, dreaming about the day the project that dates back to …
City of San Antonio asks for community input as it develops new bike plan
Tiffany Huertas | www.ksat.com
The city is asking for feedback in certain areas to help provide safe mobility for all users
SAN ANTONIO – The City of San Antonio has developed an interactive website to get community input in specific areas to provide safe mobility for everyone.
People can provide feedback by using the map and sharing their experiences.
“Walk us through maybe some of your experiences on one of these roadways. Maybe you’ve had some trouble navigating a particular segment of a sidewalk or a particular crossing, or …
Burleson School for Innovation and Education brings transition students back on campus
Sarah Acosta | www.ksat.com
SAN ANTONIO – When a special education student graduates from high school, that transition into the real world can be a little tough.
The Edgewood Independent School District’s Burleson School for Innovation and Education helps special needs students ages 18-21 make that transition easier and help them reach life goals. …
… A graphic t-shirt print shop and bike repair shop help them gain niche work skills. …
Arlington Detective Hit While Riding Bike With Church Group Headed Home From The Hospital
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FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Arlington Crimes Against Children Detective Alan Branch is headed home from the hospital after he was seriously injured last month when a motorist struck his cycling group. …
Hunt Communities Officially Opens Cimarron Canyon Park
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EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Today Hunt Communities (Hunt) commemorated the official opening of Cimarron Canyon Park with a small ribbon-cutting ceremony. Cimarron Canyon Park, a 3-acre community green space in Northwest El Paso, is part of Cimarron, one of El Paso’s signature master-planned communities.
Hunt Communities President Justin Chapman highlighted the features for park visitors during a socially-distanced and intimate ceremony. There are shaded areas for play and lounging, picnic tables, native landscaping, and broad sidewalks. Cimarron Canyon Park is also home to El Paso’s first bike "pump track" designed for young bikers to improve their cycling skills while having fun. …
Hundreds of riders expected for Cotton Patch Classic
By Brad Kellar | www.heraldbanner.com
Hundreds of riders are expected in downtown Greenville on Saturday to participate in the 24th annual Cotton Patch Classic bicycle tour, hosted by the Noon Rotary Club of Greenville.
Donaghe Buick GMC is the title sponsor for the event, along with the city of Greenville.
A total of 400 cyclists have signed on for the event and will be participating among six routes, ranging from 12 to 74 miles, across the southern end of Hunt County, along with two gravel-bed routes in the northern end of the county. Eight rest stops are also established along the courses.
The Greenville Noon Rotary Club has …
Two local biker riders complete ‘everesting’ on Scenic Drive
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Two El Paso bike riders completed “everesting,†which emulates a climb to the height of Mount Everest, by riding up Scenic Drive 184 times.
The ride took them more than 15 hours to complete.
Friends and family were close by with food and water to help fuel them for the ride up and down the two-mile stretch of road.
In all, the riders completed a …
VeoRide confirms it ceased serving Denton
by Ileana Garnand | www.ntdaily.com
VeoRide confirmed it ceased serving Denton after Transportation Services contacted the company when it learned all VeoRide rental bikes had been removed from campus at the start of the fall semester without explanation.
VeoRide Regional General Manager Joe Brummer provided the North Texas Daily with additional context regarding the company’s departure.
“After one year [on campus], we realized that in order for us to be sustainable and profitable, we’d need to …
A Stranger Stole a Kid’s Bike at School, Officer Works to Make it Right
By Diana Zoga | www.nbcdfw.com
When Caio Corona went to his son’s nearby elementary school to walk his kids home on Monday, he noticed his son’s bike wasn’t where they’d left it that morning.
Corona alerted the school and Prosper ISD Officer Allen Adams checked the school surveillance video.
Just after 11:30 on Monday morning, cameras outside Furr Elementary captured video of a man walking across the parking lot, then up to a bike rack where he grabbed a child’s bicycle then rode away. …
‘Nobody deserves this’: Wounds run deep for family of Spring Branch boy killed in bicycle crash
Anna Bauman | www.houstonchronicle.com
Rodney and Luisa Peterzen are planning a vigil for their son, Victor, 10, who was struck and killed by a car while riding his bike through their neighborhood earlier this month. The couple is hoping to raise awareness about bicycle safety, distracted driving and organ donation. Photographed on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Houston.
Rodney Peterzen arrived home on a recent Tuesday eager to help his son tackle fourth-grade homework, but his wife met him at their Spring Branch area home with a worried face.
“Where’s Victor?†she asked. Louisa Peterzen’s maternal instinct kicked in when she heard an ambulance minutes after her 10-year-old son left on his bike.
With dread, Rodney …
Here’s How Longhorn Dam Is Getting Safer for Cars, Bikes, and Yes, People
JAMES RAMBIN | austin.towers.net
After substantial public engagement and a final engineering report issued back in July, the City of Austin’s Transportation Department has nailed down its plans for a pedestrian bridge crossing Lady Bird Lake near Longhorn Dam in East Austin — and as we’d hoped, the “Wishbone†bridge option presented alongside several others last year is the prize pig, ready to enter the design and development phases assuming voters sign off on the $460 million transit bond package expected this November. …
Bicycle Friendly Driver Videos
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BikeHouston’s Inge Ford helped produce a series of videos with the Houston Police Department. These videos will be part of HPD’s mandatory training! They are narrated by Commander Kristine Anthony-Miller who also sits on the board of the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee.
There are three parts to the Bicycle Friendly Driver series. Watch them below! …
August & September 2020: Executive Director’s Report
By Nick Hellyar | bikehouston.org
August and September have gone by in a flash!
We have some pretty exciting news to relay this month.
For starters, we’ve started selling ride packets for The Moonlight Ramble 2020! This will be the 49th year of operation. That’s 49 years of late night riding (often in costume) around Houston! Due to COVID, we’ve had to change a few things. This year there will be no group ride or ride support. Meaning that people ride on their own time (this year, we’re recommending that people ride during the day). We have assembled a pretty awesome ride packet this year that includes: …
Texas Tumbleweed 100 sets a record
John Key | www.moorenews.com
In spite of the COVID crisis, or perhaps because of it, a record 148 people turned out Saturday to ride in the Texas Tumbleweed 100 and raise money for the Moore County YMCA. "We were pleasantly surprised by how many came out despite COVID," said Susan Riseling, one of the chief organizers of the event. "We were worried … but we just pressed on, acted like it wasn’t there, and it worked."
YMCA Board President Harold Grall said it was too soon to know how much money had been raised, but he thought it would be more than previous years. Because of the COVID crisis, they event this year had been …