Texas Bicycling News June 22nd 2022
Bike Wichita Falls to hold 3rd Annual Ride & Splash event
by: Olivia Taggart, Angie Lankford | www.texomashomepage.com
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Bike Wichita Falls will host their annual fun bike educational event this weekend.
For the 3rd Annual Ride & Splash, Bike Wichita Falls will be working with the Texas Department of Transportation to provide a closed course for kids to learn bike safety.
In addition to the closed course, there will be refreshments, helmet fittings and giveaways, bike adjustments and goody bags for the first 50 to arrive.
Participants are encouraged to ride their bikes as a family to the new splash pad.
Ride & Splash will be Saturday, June 25, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Hamilton Park.
Making it (to) work: Local residents embrace commuting by bike
Adam Zuvanich | www.fortbendstar.com
Joy Roth is a self-described cheerleader for commuting by bicycle, having recruited several of her fellow Chevron employees to pedal to work instead of pressing the gas pedal in an automobile. She readily ticks off the benefits of riding to their downtown office building on a bike, such as improving fitness, lowering transportation costs, decreasing stress and reducing one’s carbon footprint.
But Roth admits that it’s not for everyone – not even in her own household.
She and her husband both work for Chevron and make daily 3-mile treks from their home in Woodland Heights to the energy company’s office building at 1400 Smith St. Roth rides her bike while her husband drives, sometimes more slowly.
“Getting out of downtown at the end of the day, from my office I can see traffic backed up …
TxDOT Completes Upgrades at I-35 and Parmer Lane in Travis County
Diann Hodges | www.txdot.gov
A project that built a diverging diamond interchange in north Austin is now complete and was celebrated today by TxDOT, Texas Transportation Commission chairman J. Bruce Bugg, Jr., State Representative Celia Israel, and others at a ribbon cutting ceremony.
“Since 2015, we’ve completed a dozen Texas Clear Lanes projects across the state,” said Bugg. “The I-35 at Parmer Lane project will help get Austin drivers out of congestion and back to the things they want and need to do.”
The $24.6 million project replaced the traditional intersection with a DDI, reconstructed the northbound bypass lane, added a southbound bypass lane, constructed right-turn lanes and dual left-turn lanes at the Parmer Lane and North Lamar Boulevard intersection, and improved bicycle and pedestrian paths throughout the corridor.
“As someone who …
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Texas Biking from Twitter
STOLEN – White Rad Power Bikes RadMission ST 1.5 in Austin, TX https://t.co/mEMqxXCAj4 pic.twitter.com/LQ0yrRhc8b
— BikeIndex Austin (@stolenbikesatx) June 23, 2022
SOS 16 miles 7 hard trying to pass this guy . I did catch & pass ,but I was busting a nut , he was just peddling . I USUALLY laugh at waterpacks on the road ????????????????????but this guy could peddle and actually told ME the date of the ride on my jersey ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/fGvG5uQOF9
— jerald roll (@grandpajerald) June 22, 2022
The catch pic.twitter.com/bsAznLmoRS
— jerald roll (@grandpajerald) June 22, 2022
Saturday's ride starts at the Oak Pavilion in Pickrell Park. Be sure to download the updated routes. pic.twitter.com/iF8O5Dpdmx
— SA Wheelmen (@sawheelmen) June 22, 2022
STOLEN – Orange Other DREISTERN in Downtown Austin https://t.co/bEgbRGLGgF pic.twitter.com/VBpTNPZwAN
— BikeIndex Austin (@stolenbikesatx) June 22, 2022
Council Member Evans-Shabazz will be there on Saturday with her new e-bike. https://t.co/DNWq49PfN6 pic.twitter.com/9t2BjV1zaa
— BikeHouston (@BikeHouston) June 22, 2022
Is it feasible to commute by bike in @HoustonTX? Many Heights-area residents, including a group of @ChevronHouston employees, have embraced riding to work and encourage others to give it a go. @BikeHouston @bradsnead @heightslife https://t.co/2AS1KguNM2 via @FromTheLeader
— Adam Zuvanich (@AZuvanich) June 22, 2022
OK Houston Bike Twitter, what are we naming this thing? https://t.co/5SnsJXhodq
— BikeHouston (@BikeHouston) June 22, 2022
New Events Added to Texbiker.net Calendar
New Event Liberty Hill Lions Club Rip Roar’n Ride – Liberty Hill, TX October 8, 2022 at 08:00AM https://t.co/GbXed5Cand
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) June 22, 2022
New Event Taco Tuesday West – McKinney, TX July 5, 2022 at 06:00PM https://t.co/YuwE1ld6tt
— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) June 22, 2022