Category: Advocacy
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Richardson Texas Gets Recognized As A Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community
Today, the League of American Bicyclists recognized Richardson, Texas with a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community (BFCSM) award, joining 350 visionary communities from across the country. With the announcement of 42 new and renewing BFCs today, Richardson joins a leading group of communities, in all 50 states, that are transforming our neighborhoods. “We applaud this new round of communities for investing in a…
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Richardson City Staff Presents Bike Plan To City Council
On Monday, April 20, 2015 Richardson City Staff presented their Bike Plan to Richardson City Council. The presentation was a combination recap of what they’ve done, as well as their next steps. It was nice to see how important bicycling is to our city officials and how they continue to see the value of what it brings to our…
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TxDOT – Public Hearing – Bicycle Use in DFW – Tomorrow
If you ride a bike in north Texas, you should think about going to the Texas Department of Transportation Public Hearing – Bicycle Use in DFW. Information from their site: Where: City of Irving City Hall 825 W. Irving Blvd. Irving, TX 75060 When: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Purpose: The…
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City of Richardson Bike Parking Initiative
Increased bike parking has always been one of the goals of Bike Friendly Richardson. More bike parking provides incentive for folks to ride their bikes to local destinations, like parks, libraries and local businesses. We have a great city to ride, and now it’s time to work harder on our destinations. Recently, we were asked…
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ATTENTION: MONDAY IS A BIG DAY FOR RICHARDSON CYCLISTS!
There are two big bike events happening on Monday, June 2. Please try to attend either one, or both. The first is the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony of the new Central Trail extension in Richardson. It’s a much needed extension of an existing trail, providing some great connections between our local DART rail train stations and neighborhoods.…
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Bike Parking Workshop – WE NEED YOUR INPUT
Because of some of the success cyclists are getting with local businesses to get bike parking, we are getting some attention from the Richardson City Council. Currently, we are working on a proposal to promote more bike parking throughout Richardson and we would love to get your input. If you are free this Friday…
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Protect Biking and Walking Federal Funding
We received a message from the League of American Bicyclists, requesting our support. We would love to get our local cyclist friends involved with this initiative: Thank you for you dedication to building a Bicycle Friendly Community. We appreciate the work you are doing to make bicycling safer and more accessible. We wanted to make…
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Bicycling Goals For Richardson – 2014
What do you think the 2014 Bike Goals for the City of Richardson should be? Please post your ideas that would help improve biking in our city – and would cost little to nothing out of their budget. We’ll see if we can politely bring them to their attention. I’ll start: – Safe Passing Ordinance.…
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Mayor & Council Survey – Mark Solomon
Mark Solomon is running unopposed for re-election to City Council Place 2. Thank you Mr. Solomon for taking the time to give your perspective on cycling issues in Richardson.
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Mayor & Council Survey – Kendal Hartley
Kendal Hartley is currently the Place 5 councilman and is running unopposed for the Place 4 seat (Laura Maczka’s seat). Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, Mr. Hartley.