Texas Bicycling News Digest April 16th 2019
West Hickory Street conundrum: Lanes for parking or biking?
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe | www.dentonrc.com
Denton’s efforts to rebuild West Hickory Street have come to a screeching halt following a controversy over a bike lane planned for the new roadway.
During its work session Tuesday afternoon, the Denton City Council is expected to consider competing recommendations to get the work back on track. The project to rebuild Hickory from …
City finds bike lane solution, moves toward bond election
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe | www.dentonrc.com
Denton city leaders moved two balls down the field Tuesday afternoon, steering the staff toward a solution for a congested part of West Hickory Street and toward a $200 million bond election this fall.
Neither move the Denton City Council made during its work session will be its last on either topic, particularly the bond election. But the city staff is taking steps to execute both plans in the coming months. …
Video: Veterans, first responders set off from Austin on 300-mile therapy bike ride
by: Todd Bailey | www.kxan.com
AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 300 miles separate 50 military veterans and first responders from their final destination in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. That is the distance the group will bicycle as part of the 12th annual Project Hero Texas Challenge Bike Ride that aims to help people heal.
Cyclists set off Tuesday morning after a ceremony at Austin Veteran Affairs. Over the course of the next few days, they will ride through historic sites, civic centers and local attractions along the way. …
Tour de Braz draws hundreds
Joshua Truksa | www.alvinsun.net
Once again, people from across the Houston area flocked to Alvin to take part in the annual Tour de Braz bike ride. Foreboding weather forecasts couldn’t keep determined cyclists away, and the gamble paid off. Though cloudy, the riders stayed dry into the afternoon and beat the storms that television stations ominously displayed in the morning making their way from Austin and San Antonio. Organizers of the race canceled the 100-mile route of the ride for fears that …
Blotter: Man found passed out on bike trail
By Dalton LaFerney | www.dentonrc.com
Police responded to an unconscious person call in the 600 block of East Hickory Street on Monday night and found a man who could not stand on his own, according to a police report.
The man was found lying in a bicycle path near the Denton County Transportation Authority platform in downtown Denton, the report shows.
Police responded and noted the …
Ryan Atkinson: 10 take-aways from the Bicycle Leadership Conference
By Ryan Atkinson | www.bicycleretailer.com
I’m sitting at a coffee shop in Santa Cruz decompressing from an intense couple of days of learning. While much of the bike world was getting amped about Sea Otter Classic product launches, industry leaders got together to talk big picture in Monterey at the Bicycle Leadership Conference. The BLC is always a valuable opportunity to take the pulse of the industry and learn new perspectives. …
… 7. Ride Spot is awesome
PeopleForBikes launched Ride Spot. This is a great digital platform to help make it easier for new cyclists to discover great places to ride. They built the platform with independent bike retailers front and center. PeopleForBikes considers bike shops a part of a community’s cycling infrastructure and aims to make it easier for bike shops to engage consumers on an ongoing basis around riding bikes. …
City Park Direction Change In Progress
By zrx24 | austinmountainbiking.com
As mentioned a few weeks ago in the City Park Trail Conditions thread, the City approved our getting back to our old ways of reversing trail direction every few years. I’ve begun changing directional signage on the upper loop this afternoon, and should have the rest of the trail finished tomorrow.
If you’re riding there tomorrow, the direction is still counter-clockwise. But you will encounter some Wrong Way markers and see that the directional signage has been changed in places (tree hangers for example). DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING BACK. …
Bike auction revenue doubled from 2011–16
BY BONNY CHU | dailytexanonline.com
Whenever bikes are abandoned on campus, they are often sold at bike auctions.
These auctions are held by Parking and Transportation Services each fall. The revenue from these auctions nearly doubled to about $12,800 from 2011 to 2016, according to the most recent PTS report.
“We have an overwhelming amount of abandoned bikes left on campus each semester,†said Jeremy Hernandez, bicycle coordinator …
Westpark Kaboom Bowl Blaster
T REDLINE Nguyen | www.strava.com
