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Texas Biking News November 12th 2021

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Dallas Is Using $2 Million to Update the City’s Biking Infrastructure

Jacob Vaughn | www.dallasobserver.com

For the first time in a decade, Dallas is updating its bike plan.

The 2022 budget allocates $2 million for Dallas’ bike lane program. Some of that money will go toward filling “critical gaps” in the city’s 2011 bike plan. The city is also trying extend the bike network’s reach and connect it to more destinations. With the update, Dallas’ leaders want to figure out where biking infrastructure is needed and reconsider current routes.

Dallas has several projects lined up to …

Souther Tier, San Diego to St Augustine

By Chin Wu | www.crazyguyonabike.com

2021-11-11: Navasota to Coldspring

Thursday November 11, 2021, 67 miles (108 km) – Total so far: 1,874 miles (3,016 km) It was pouring in the morning but was cleared before sun came out. My ride today was quite enjoyable after I got away from the city. But I got a big nail into the tire 5 miles into the ride. Fixing it is easier because the culprit was located easily.

$7.4 Million For Improvements to BIke/Hiking Trails in Bowie & Red River Counties

Lisa Lindsey | kkyr.com

Well, how awesome is this? Improvements have been approved for the longest hiking, bicycle and horseback riding trail in Texas that extends into Bowie and Red River Counties.

It all stems from TxDot as they approved over $7.4 million for the projects that will make improvements to over a 27-mile area of the Northeast Texas Trail System (NETT). …

Remember When Austin’s Hike-and-Bike Trail Didn’t Have Enough Trees?

James Rambin | austin.towers.net

Lady Bird Johnson on the Shoal Creek Peninsula in the 1970s — this area has grown so much it’s actually impossible to get this view from this perspective now, and we don’t mean the skyline. Image: The Trail Foundation

If you’re an Austin old-timer, what we’re about to tell you sounds insultingly simple — but did you know the city’s famously lush Hike-and-Bike Trail wasn’t always so green? If you’re one of the many people that moved here yesterday, you’d have no idea that much of the current tree cover shading many sections of the trail, particularly in the downtown area, is technically artificial in its placement — the majority planted no earlier than the 1970s by the Town Lake Beautification Committee and famously …

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