Texas Bicycling News – January 18, 2023
Editorial: Why would Houston want to rebuild roads to slow cars down?
The Editorial Board | www.houstonchronicle.com
Derek Fincham poses with his bicycle in the spot where he was struck by a car while bicycling at Pierce and Austin Streets in downtown Houston, TX.Sharon Steinmann/Staff Photographer
“What is the logic behind taking a four-lane busy street and reducing it to 2 lanes and a turn lane plus a bicycle lane in a city with a population of 2.3 million?” asks Robert M., a commenter on NextDoor.
A new round of social media flame wars has erupted as Houston installs islands and crosswalks for pedestrians, and protected lanes for bicyclists along 11th Street in the Houston Heights.
The angry residents ask a fair question. It seems counterintuitive for the city to deliberately slow traffic down on a street that serves so many businesses.
The new approach makes perfect sense, though, if you hear the story of Derek Fincham. It was late October 2021. Around 7 p.m., Fincham, a professor at …
Approved reroute open and ready for use. New road and paved path going in at O.P. Schnabel park. Approved reroute in progress. Are you ready? Think you got the legs for this one? Endurance is the name of the game as participants compete to finish three 17-mile laps at Flat Rock Ranch for some sweet singletrack goodness. Bring your climbing legs, because there will be a lot of it! If that seems like too much, we also have 2-lap and 1-lap categories as well. The STORM Miles of DisComfort MTB Marathon is the final race of the 2022/23 Hill Country Bicycle Works Texas Marathon Mountain Bike State Championship Series.
How to cycle around when you don’t have a bike
Jay R. Jordan | www.axios.com
I finally have my bike back from the shop (once again, thanks, EaDo Bike Co.!), but I wanted to share what it was like using Houston BCycle in the interim.
By the numbers: Houstonians took 623,680 trips on a BCycle in 2020 and 2021, according to data published by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
The average ride in 2020 and 2021 was 76 minutes, an estimated 230 calories burned each trip.
The average trip was just under six miles.
The bikeshare estimates it reached more than 350,000 trips in 2022.
Pedaling the news: …
Evening Ride San Antonio, Texas
Simon Garcia Jr | strava.com
Moms Ride- 50 for Drew Houston, Texas
Michelle Yoder | strava.com
Texas Biking from Twitter
If you build it they will come ? https://t.co/UavnIvi5cO
— urbanist (@JRDNLTHMS) January 19, 2023
just @BikeReg'd for Road to Hotter'N Hell – https://t.co/DO1Vo7W8IU
— Bikin' Mike (@TheBikinMike) January 18, 2023
STOLEN – Yellow Canyon bicycles Speedmax CF disc 7.0 20/21(L) in Austin, TX https://t.co/fRRaa62wOf pic.twitter.com/2jasVH8sXQ
— BikeIndex Austin (@stolenbikesatx) January 18, 2023
Saturday 1/21/2023 The Bagel Ride
— The Bagel Ride (@thebagelride) January 18, 2023
8:30am ride start
Starts behind Little Woodrow's, 12601 Tech Ridge Blvd, Austin 78753
61mi (98km). Store stop at 31mihttps://t.co/iTmI9bIVzn
Join us on Saturday for our Copperfield Ride! We'll be heading to China Grove. Wheels down at 9. https://t.co/74PjbgakAg pic.twitter.com/ePNjU2Mqip
— SA Wheelmen (@sawheelmen) January 18, 2023