Texas BMX Champ Recovering After Horrific Crash At Tokyo Olympics

By Anna Gallegos | www.iheart.com

The reigning gold medal BMX racing champion is on the mend after a terrible crash at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.

Connor Fields, of Plano, Texas, clipped a competitor’s bike with his front wheel, which caused him to lose his balance and crash during the first turn in a semifinal run, according to Sports Illustrated. He collided with two other racers and was unable to get back up by himself.

Fields previously won gold in men’s BMX at the 2016 Rio Olympics for Team USA and was considered the favorite in Tokyo.

Unfortunately, the 28-year-old was not able to compete in the final because he was hospitalized shortly after the crash. …

GROUP RIDE – Pop A (some subtitles and 10min of rearview) – 7/29/2021

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Bikeways Safety Improvement Projects Are Moving Forward

Monthly Planner Newsletter – City of Houston Planning Department

Houston’s future as a multimodal city starts with projects that make streets safer and more comfortable for all modes. One big part of that is building out the City’s Bike Plan which outlines 1,800 miles of high comfort bike facilities all throughout the City. In July, we focused on three bikeway projects, on which PD is working with Harris County Precinct One:

Cavalcade-Homestead Healthy Connection Corridor: Road users on these streets experience crashes at a rate five times higher than the Texas average, and 25% of fatal crashes involve people walking and biking. The project will improve streets in Kashmere Gardens (a Houston Complete Community) and Trinity Gardens, including improved sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic signals, bus stops, and a new bikeway.

Blodgett and Cleburne Bikeways Following up on nearly a dozen public engagement events since 2018, design concepts are now being developed for bikeways on one or both of Blodgett Street and Cleburne Street based on community input to improve east-west access in the Greater Third Ward, especially between TSU, Contemporary Learning High School, MacGregor Elementary school, and the Wheeler Transit Center.

Calhoun-Griggs-MLK Healthy Connections Corridor The corridor is currently proposed as an approximately 7-mile street redesign encompassing three street segments: Calhoun Rd from Wheeler Ave. to Griggs Rd.; Griggs Rd. from Tierwester St. to Beekman Rd.; Martin Luther King Blvd. from Griggs Rd. to the Sims Bayou. Read more on the Let’s Talk Houston engagement page.

The proposed corridor redesign is aligned with the City’s Vision Zero commitment to end traffic deaths and serious injuries and improve street safety for everyone who walks, bikes, uses a wheelchair and drives. This includes street redesign to slow vehicle speeds, a barrier-protected bikeway, intersection enhancements to make it safer for people walking and biking to cross the street, and transit improvements to make bus stops more comfortable and to improve route efficiency.

Mother of Fort Worth hit-and-run victim finds suspect, leads to arrest

By Eric Griffey | spectrumlocalnews.com

FORT WORTH, Texas — Josiah “JoJo” Dunn was riding his bicycle on the 3200 block of Strong Avenue when a truck hit him and continued driving. The incident was caught on a doorbell camera, and dozens of internet sleuths, led by the child’s mother, shared the video on social media. …