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from the Houston Chronicle

With the rapid increase in gasoline prices Metro could be overwhelmed with bicyclists riding to meet buses according to the Houston Chronicle story. As I drive around Houston I have not seen many buses with their front mounted bike rack filled with the two bikes they can carry.

From the Chronicle story:

“In April, 1,510 bus riders boarded after attaching their bicycles to racks, according to Metro. By June, that number increased to 3,624.

Bike racks, which hold up to two bicycles at a time, are installed on all Metro buses, save for the longer accordion-style models. Park & Ride commuters can put bikes in the luggage storage areas, and riders can bring their bikes onto MetroRail trains during nonpeak hours of the day.”

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from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times online

By Mary Ann Cavazos

A recent week on Corpus Christi roadways saw seven accidents involving motor vehicles and bicyclists.

Local cyclists say the sheer number of accidents during that week, June 15-21, is cause for concern and should serve as a wake-up call to cyclists and drivers who share area roads.

As of Monday, there had been 38 accidents this year, 13 of which happened this month, according to recent figures released by police.

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from beaumontenterprise.com

By: HEATHER NOLAN, The Enterprise

On Tuesday, Southeast Texas natives Joe Haeggquist, Tom Simon, Charlie Dixon, Eric Laing, Richard James and Britt Gober will begin pedaling their bicycles across the country from San Diego to Washington, D.C.

The group plans to traverse the 3,300 miles in 33 days - 100 miles a day - to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which focuses on cancer awareness. They plan to stop in 34 cities.

Along the way, they’ll be sporting helmets with a Beaumont logo, and the Beaumont Convention and Visitors Bureau provided them with T-shirts to hand out at each stop.

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From the Houston Community newspaper The Sun

By VAL CLIFTON

“Many motorists don’t think bicycles belong in the roadway,” Wang said. “You have to put up with a certain amount of discrimination.”

Outside Houston city limits, Harris County has “no interest” in building facilities for bicyclists on roads or streets, he said.

“Some of the precincts have some very nice trails, but none that are on road that actually serve destinations like schools, businesses or retail,” Wang said. “They are recreational in nature. No one lives on a trail or buys groceries on a trial, so they aren’t usable for transportation.”

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The Dallas Morning News reports on the efforts Bike DFW has made to raise the awareness of the safety issues of bicycling in Dallas. In the last several weeks a number of cyclists have been injured and ywo were killed.

From the online article:

Bike DFW launched its petition Sunday to raise awareness of the two-wheel riders – and to encourage local governments to find ways to increase safety, such as bike lanes on some roads.

More than 3,600 people had signed the petition as of Thursday night, but the group hopes to rack up 100,000 signatures.

"Cyclists are like an invisible population," said Chris Phelan, one of the petition’s authors and founder of the annual Ride of Silence, which honors cyclists killed while riding. "They’re just not seen by motorists or city government."

You can read the full story at this link to The Dallas Morning News

According to the Alpine Avalanche, the National Park Service is considering a change in the mountain bike access for many parks.

"The National Park Service is considering a plan that potentially opens millions of acres of national park backcountry to mountain bikes, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

Today (June 19), National Park Service Director Mary Bomar was scheduled to address the convention of the International Mountain Bicycling Association, amid its lobbying campaign to loosen restrictions on bicycle access to park backcountry."

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from timesrecordnews.com

by Sarah Johnson

Patrick McBride is hoping the Midwest corn crop is unseasonably good next summer. That’s when McBride and two friends will ride their bikes about 1,200 miles from Wichita Falls to Chicago to raise money for an orphanage project in Nigeria.

“The tall corn stalks stop the wind from coming across the road,� McBride said.

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from gosanangelo.com

By BENJAMIN S. ROSSI, Special to the Standard-Times

Competitive cyclist and runner Bill Cullins said that goal is to get San Angelo healthy and feeling better.

“San Angelo is becoming a more active and fit community,” he said.

The San Angelo Bicycle Association worked with the San Angelo Road Lizards running club - the groups’ memberships tend to overlap - to include Run in the Sun, an 8k foot race, in addition to bike races Crit on the Concho and Tour de Burma.

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