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Texas Biking News April 12th 2021

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Help clean up Houston’s bike lanes this Earth Day

Jay R. Jordan | www.chron.com

It’s spring in Houston, a time for rebirth, rejuvenation and … cleaning.

Like street drains before a storm, Houston’s infrastructure sometimes needs a little TLC. That includes our bike lanes, where cyclists sometimes encounter litter, street debris and overgrowth. …

Dixon: Popular events returning safely to Flower Mound

www.crosstimbersgazette.com

… Then on Saturday, May 15, head on over to Lakeside DFW for the Flower Mound Police Department’s inaugural Bike with the Blue fundraiser. The event will feature a 5K run, civilian bike race, youth ride where children can ride a short course with sworn police cyclists across the DFW area, and end with a police bike race. After each race, you can enjoy music, refreshments, awards, and test out your skills in a bike obstacle course, all while benefiting a great cause.

This year, all proceeds will benefit Journey to Dream – Kyle’s Place, a transitional living program for homeless teens in Denton County. Registration for the 5K and all bike races is open online at www.flower-mound.com/bikewiththeblue. …

A man on a bicycle was killed just north of downtown, police say

daviddalpe | texasnewstoday.com

San Antonio – San Antonio police are investigating early Monday morning after a man riding a bicycle was shot dead just north of downtown.

Police officers were called at the intersection of East Evergreen Street and East Evergreen Court, not far from North St Mary’s Street, after being informed of the shooting at around 2:20 am.

According to police, the victim was a man between the ages of 35 and 45, probably homeless. SAPD said he was fatally injured when he was shot in the head while riding a bicycle. He was …

San Antonio cycling community suffers another loss after death in Tobin Hill

Katie Friel | www.mysanantonio.com

It’s been a brutal week for San Antonio’s cycling community. In the early morning hours of Monday, April 12, police say a bicyclist was shot and killed, less than one week after another rider was struck down by a suspected drunk driver near Central Catholic High School.

According to the San Antonio Express-News, a man between the ages of 35 and 45 was riding through Tobin Hill around 2:20 am when a vehicle approached him and shot him in the head. Rescue crews found the victim near the …

Family says Abilene man hit and killed while riding bike Sunday night

by: Erica Garner | www.bigcountryhomepage.com

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – A fatal bicycle accident happened in north Abilene Sunday night.

Family members of Juan Martinez, 60, say he was riding his motorized bicycle near the intersection of Pine Street and Jamaica Street when he was hit by a car around 9:00 p.m.

Police confirm Martinez was pronounced …

TxDOT wants to add four lanes to I-35, but a citizen work group is pushing ‘BAC’

by Seth Smalley | www.austinmonitor.com

At the April 5 joint meeting of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory councils (BAC and PAC), members reviewed a Google doc detailing their recommendations to the Texas Department of Transportation regarding the I-35 Capital Express Project.

The massive highway project proposes adding two managed lanes, in an attempt to relieve congestion, to each side of Interstate 35, from U.S. Highway 290 East to Ben White Boulevard/State Highway 71. …

… “TxDOT’s Mobility35 plan does not adequately address safety for people on bicycles and on foot as it maintains three-plus high-speed frontage road lanes. It also fails to provide any additional safe crossing points, a key aspect of reconnecting East and West Austin,” Tristan Heinen, a former BAC vice chair who is currently unaffiliated, told the Austin Monitor. “It’s a bad plan – 1950s-era thinking applied to a 2020 problem.” …

Mark Otti 2021 Coast2Coast

By Mark Otti | www.crazyguyonabike.com

Day 31 Monday, April 12 ride from La Grange Texas to Hidalgo falls Tx 1600 miles rides: another wonderful day, mostly cloudy with some wind to keep us cool……….Eddie shouts all day long

Monday April 12, 2021, 69 miles (112 km) – Total so far: 1,629 miles (2,621 km) Anyway each morning I’ve been getting up feeling great, can’t wait to go bike riding! I don’t have any pains or stiff muscles or anything that feels old like I did a few months ago so I think I’m getting younger as I ride each day! so for those of you who haven’t gone riding cross-country you need to do it because you’ll get younger every day at least feel younger so it feels awesome.

So today we stopped at 50 miles for a rest up here for lunch and l am still feeling good! I’ve got about 18 more miles to go to the overnight camp excellent!

So last night it was only like 61 overnight so yeah wasn’t wasn’t cold and wasn’t hot didn’t really need a sleeping bag so I slept on top of it. But the humidity level was up so woke up in the outfield kind of sticky from the humidity but not bad. Then slept through most of the night other than getting up to go potty once during the night. And one of the only two bathrooms for the whole RV campsite. I guess the RV folks have their own bathrooms but …

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