Texas Bicycling News – October 3, 2023
Woodlands begins development on huge park that could connect 40-mile trail from Spring to Tomball
Claire Partain | www.houstonchronicle.com
The Woodlands township has approved the first stages of the upcoming South Gosling Park in Creekside Park.
The township’s board of directors voted Sept. 27 to start the engineering process for the 208-acre park, which will become The Woodlands’ largest once completed.
The board allocated $308,220 in funding and $30,000 in materials testing from the Parks and Recreation Needs Assessment Reserve for the initial stage of the project.
“This is a tremendous opportunity,” board member Shelley Sekula-Gibbs said. “If you look at the needs assessment, the community is hungry for more amenities when it comes to all sorts of outdoor activities.” …
… The park will also potentially connect to the Spring Creek Greenway. In Oct. 2022, the township approved a nonbinding letter of intent for $5 million with Harris County to connect the Spring Creek Greenway to Gosling Road.
Harris County has committed funding for 6 miles in paved asphalt trails in The Woodlands from the Ann K Snyder Trailhead to Gosling Road.
Once completed by Harris County, the 40-mile trail will stretch from the Spring Creek Park in Tomball to the Cypresswood Golf Club in Spring and be one of the longest trail systems on a greenway in the United States, Nunes said. …
— NorthlineLex (@NorthlineLex) October 3, 2023
Like people once did before setting sail, a kiss before the ride! pic.twitter.com/TpKdu0cs3a
— Hotter'n Hell 100 (@HotternHell100) October 3, 2023
Biketober is underway! Sign up and you can compete with fellow bicyclists from the Houston region. Any ride counts! https://t.co/mF5FY8SXA8 pic.twitter.com/sGuOcwmuzX
— BikeHouston (@BikeHouston) October 2, 2023
Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day is Saturday, October 7th. Denton Parks & Rec and Police Department will provided guided tours 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at the Denton Mountain Bike Park. A limited number of bicycles will be available to borrow with photo ID. https://t.co/8HhzviaZzH pic.twitter.com/yTHzFUnYN4
— Bike Denton (@bikedenton) October 1, 2023
Great #RRR ride yesterday with the crew! Thanks everyone who came out for our Anniversary Ride down South from @ATCTriShop ?? The Meteor Austin! ? ? ?. pic.twitter.com/FvyIptubrl
— ROTHE Training (@rothetraining) October 3, 2023
Wisconsin driver sentenced in Galveston cyclist’s death
By B. SCOTT McLENDON | www.galvnews.com
A bicycle tire lies on grass along the roadside as a Galveston Police officer investigates the scene where the driver of a compact SUV collided with a cyclist on FM 3005 near the intersection of Antigua Drive west of Jamaica Beach on Sept. 19, 2020. STUART VILLANUEVA/The Daily News file photo
A visiting judge Friday sentenced a Wisconsin man to 10 years of probation and 120 days in jail after the defendant pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in connection to the accident that killed an island cyclist in 2020.
Elijah Hutchison, 22, began his 120-day sentence Saturday after pleading guilty to charges that he crashed his car into Brian Huynh, 30, on Sept. 19, 2020, killing the man who was working as a physical therapist for the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Hutchison, who lives in Wisconsin, is set to serve a …
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) October 3, 2023
Check out "Freedmens Town Bike Tour & Birthday Party" https://t.co/jS1EogExAX @Eventbrite
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) October 3, 2023
Fort Bend family grieves after daughter killed crossing street, driver not charged
By Sherman Desselle | www.fox26houston.com
FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas – A Fort Bend County family is grieving the death of their teenage daughter, who was killed crossing the street with her friends last November. The driver who hit her was not charged.
John Williams recalls the tragic death of his 13-year-old daughter, Haven Williams, on Nov. 14, 2022. She and two of her friends were headed home from a bike ride when they attempted to walk across the intersection of Hawks Prairie and Spring Green Boulevards.
"She was using the crosswalk button. It wasn’t working. Instead of waiting, …