Category: Bike Education
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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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DFW Cycling Savvy – Spring 2012 Workshops
If you want to be a better road cyclist and commuter, getting some good training is always recommended. Along with the BikeDFW Traffic Skills 101 class this weekend, you have an alternative option for becoming more skilled at riding – through the CyclingSavvy DFW group. CyclingSavvy DFW is the Dallas/Fort Worth branch of the successful CyclingSavvy traffic cycling education program…
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SIGN UP NOW! – Traffic Skills 101 Course
Traffic Skills 101 Course Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:45 AM – 2 PM Location: Casteel & Associates, 10031 Monroe Drive, Suite 105, Dallas, TX 75229 Cost: $20 – includes a light snack and a printed copy of the Traffic Skills 101manual (a $10 value). Instructor: Renee Jordan ([email protected]) Come have some fun learning safe, effective…
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Report from the 2012 Texas Trails & Active Transportation Conference
I spent the latter half of last week down in sunny (and humid!) San Antonio with hundreds of other cycling advocates, public officials, and planning and design professionals. This conference is put on every other year by two state-wide organization—BikeTexas (a cycling advocacy organization that spends the odd years lobbying the state legislature) and the…
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Final DFW Cycling Savvy Class for 2011 – This Weekend
If you want to be a better road cyclist and commuter, getting some good training is always recommended. Along with the BikeDFW Traffic Skills 101 classes, you have an alternative option for becoming more skilled at riding – through the CyclingSavvy DFW group. CyclingSavvy DFW is the Dallas/Fort Worth branch of the successful CyclingSavvy traffic cycling education program developed in…
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Coming February 1-3, 2012 – Texas Trails and Active Transportation Conference
We met some of the Bike Texas folks at BFOC‘s Bicycle Fair last October and they were promoting an event that they helped organize in San Antonio next year. It’s the biennial Texas Trails and Active Transportation Conference, aka the Texas Bike/Ped Summit. Here is the info from their site: Register Now! The biennial Texas Trails and Active…
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Slow Down!
A few weeks ago, I made an observation about the new guard rails, along Arapaho Road in Garland. Through not very attractive, it was agreed that their functionality was much more important than their aesthetics. The rails were built to serve as a safety barrier for the adjacent homes, from the speeding traffic. This morning,…
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Richardson’s Point-Of-View On Different Types of Bicycle Users
With all the new trails and bike lanes in Richardson, (which we love) one might think that the city is trying to get cyclists off the road. That’s not true. One of the things that impressed us about the City of Richardson is their open point-of-view towards bicycle users. Instead of focusing on one specific…