Bike Friendly Richardson

Category: Advocacy

  • BFOC’s Jason Roberts In The Latest Issue Of Bicycle Times

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    I was flipping through my new issue of Bicycle Times Magazine and ran across an interesting article about advocacy, written by Bruce Ebert. The article talks about some of the efforts for change in automobile heavy, suburban sprawl type cities like Dallas. Bike Friendly Oak Cliff gets mentioned and Jason Roberts gets quoted. I won’t go too…

  • Cycle Super Highways In London

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    Saw this on the Cooper Bikes blog and was pretty impressed with their efforts. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezwWf9Hk7hY]

  • Do you ride a bike in Dallas? Take the survey.

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    The City of Dallas and the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ 2011 Dallas Bike Plan Open House is over, but you can still take their SURVEY. It shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete and will be available on-line through June 30th, 2010. You don’t have to live in Dallas to answer the…

  • Bike Parking BCBS Richardson

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    One of the biggest problems with biking around town is the lack of bike parking. We had discussed the need for visible bike parking at local events, but there’s also need for more parking at many of the city’s rider destinations. Looking at the current state of bike usage around town, one might think there…

  • DALLAS BIKE PLAN OPEN HOUSE – May 27

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    Our friends at the City Of Richardson forwarded us a message from Dallas: On behalf of The City of Dallas and the North Central Texas Council of Governments you are invited to participate in the 2011 DALLAS BIKE PLAN OPEN HOUSE Thursday, May 27th at Dallas City Hall from 5 PM to 8 PM. Please…

  • May – National Bike Month

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    The League of American Bicyclists recognizes May as National Bike Month. Of course most of us cyclists know that EVERY month is “Bike Month”.  However, it is nice that efforts are being made to promote bicycling and increase awareness. We look at this as an opportunity to celebrate a fun, healthy, clean and green lifestyle. On…

  • 10 Ways To Make Your Business Bike Friendly from Reuters

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    B-Cycle posted this link on Twitter, and we’re spreading the information over here: 10 Ways To Make Your Business Bike Friendly from Reuters: 1. Install bicycle racks in front of your business…more. 2. Participate in Bike-to-Work Week…more. 3. Offer cyclist discounts…more. 4. Keep a “loaner” lock on hand…more. 5. Use bicycle couriers…more. 6. Offer safe…

  • People For Bikes

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    Our friends over at pedallas posted about a cool little site called People For Bikes. They’re dedicated to channeling that passion to improve the future of bicycling. They’re also trying to gather a million names of support, to speak with one, powerful voice—to make bicycling safer, more convenient and appealing for everyone. Sounds like a good cause, and there has…

  • Richardson Biking Gets A Mention With DMN

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    There is a recent Dallas Morning News article about biking in Richardson. This comes in the wake of Bicycling Magazine’s recently released list of Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities – which lacks any of the DFW cites. The DMN article gives mention to the new bike lanes on Grove and Custer. They also quote our friend…

  • Notes From The BikeDFW Meeting

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    Last Sunday, BikeDFW had a general meeting with special guest speaker Peter Lagerwey, Senior Transportation Planner for the Toole Design Group and former Bicycle Coordinator for Seattle, who discussed ways to provide effective input on regional bicycle and transportation planning. Our friend, Sean Cortez-Mathis attended the meeting and shared some really great notes with the…