Unlike the Dallas Bike Coordinator, Houston’s Bike Coordinator, Dan Raine, appears to be in favor of bike lanes and bike mobility. Also he still has the job.

Dale Robertson writes, “Dan Raine owns seven bicycles, and he knows most of the bike routes and trails in Houston as well as anyone because he’s on them all the time. In short, Raine is hard core, exactly the kind of rainmaker the cycling community needs on its side — working from the inside.

After five months on the job as the city’s bicycle-pedestrian coordinator, he’s finally getting his arms around Houston’s 15-year-old comprehensive Bikeway Plan, focusing his attention on figuring out a way to fill in the system’s myriad of gaps and making logistical adjustments for the many changes the city has seen since its conception.”

Link to Dale’s full column at the Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook.