by Craig Cohen      www.houstonmatters.org
Over the past couple of days, we’ve talked with advocates for cyclists and pedestrians about ongoing concerns over accidents and fatalities involving Houstonians walking or riding bikes around town, and a general feeling that Houston is still not a particularly easy place to get around on foot or on a bicycle. Jay Blazek Crossley, a policy analyst with Houston Tomorrow, and Regina Garcia, the chair of Bike Houston, shared their suggestions for changes they’d like to see put in place to improve safety.
On this edition of Houston Matters, we turn to the Houston Police Department and the City of Houston’s Department of Public Works and Engineering to learn about immediate efforts to make walking and biking safer, more accessible options for Houstonians. We welcome your questions and comments for Sergeant Ruben Peña, with the Houston Police Department’s Bicycle Administration and Training Unit, and …
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AirLife responded to an accident on westbound HWY 90 at Texas 211 in west Bexar County.
Westbound lanes of HWY 90 were shut down.
The accident was between a bicycle and a car and one person has died.
BCSO said a 63-year-old man was hit while …
By Mark D. Wilson      www.mysanantonio.com
Photo By Bexar County Sheriff’s Office
Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies work Wednesday July 8, 2015 at the scene of a fatal motor vehicle-bicycle accident at U.S. Highway 90 West at Highway 211. Sheriff’s spokesman James Keith said a 63-year-old man on a bike with a backpack appeared to be attempting to cross highway 90 shortly after 7:00 a.m. when a vehicle exiting at 211 collided with the man. The man was transported to University Hospital and died. Traffic on westbound Highway 90 has been backed up for more than two hours. Keith said alcohol did not appear to be a factor in the accident.
SAN ANTONIO — A 63-year-old San Antonio man died Wednesday morning after being hit by a car on the far West Side.
Bexar County Sheriff’s Office spokesman James Keith said the man, who has not yet been identified, had been riding his bicycle on …
by Durango Texas      durangotexas.blogspot.com
I saw that which you see here on FOX News online, widely believed by very few to be the world’s most reliable news source.
I don’t really rely on FOX News for news, I find entertainment value in FOX News, what with the news on FOX often seeming to present some sort of alternative universe from …
By CLAIRE Z. CARDONAÂ Â Â Â Â Â www.dallasnews.com
What started as a drive home from a high school mountain bike competition ended in a confiscated trailer and possible criminal charges against the team’s coach.
Members of the Dallas High School Composite mountain bike team were returning from Comfort in April when the two coaches were pulled over by Alvarado police for having the wrong registration tags for the trailer.
The officer determined the vehicle identification number had been purposely scratched off, an indicator of stolen property. The trailer was impounded after the coaches unloaded thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment. At a hearing June 8, a judge …
By Christina R. Garza Staff Writer      www.brownsvilleherald.com
After gaining recognition as the Rio Grande Valley ’s Bicycling Capital, Brownsville is seeking submissions for a logo design to display the honor.
Roxana Rosas, grant writer for the city of Brownsville , said the logo will be used as a way to brand the recent designation for promotional materials.
City wellness manager Kendra Stine said the contest is an opportunity for locals to participate in the selection of a design.
“Cycling is an excellent form of physical exercise that people of …
GHORBA
Sunday, August 16, 2015 – 9:30am
Please join us for a fun ride at Bluff Creek Ranch trails!
Our first girls only ride, in a very long time!
These trails are beginner friendly and it’s ‘one way’ only, so you can’t get lost!
Alan will have Burgers, chips and a Smoothie for $10, if you get hungry!
Please don’t forget your $10 day use fee, per person.
Also bring your camelback if you have one, it’s hot out there!
I can’t wait to meet and ride with a new group of girls!
Paul Rodriguez Guess what?…I’m coming to Houston
Pit’s Fritztown News      pitsfritztownnews.wordpress.com
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During the last few days I got handlebar mounts for my camcorder and my cell phone and that’s what my handlebar now looks like: …
VIP Night Tour de Cure
Thursday, Jul 23, 2015, 5:30 PM
Performance Bicycle
7549 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX
5 Cycling Enthusiasts Went
Check out this Meetup →
FREE CLINIC BASIC BIKE MAINTENANCE
Thursday, Jul 16, 2015, 6:00 PM
Performance Bicycle
7549 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX
3 Cycling Enthusiasts Went
Check out this Meetup →
http://www.meetup.com/Performance-Great-Ride-Series-North-Houston/events/223802510/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af=event&_af_eid=223802510
Pit’s Fritztown News      pitsfritztownnews.wordpress.com
Here’s now, as announced in my previous blog entry, one of the videos I took this evening on my first bicycle ride with the camcorder mounted on the handlebar. I admit, the quality is not the best, as I still have to learn a lot about bicycling and at the same time recording, but it’s a beginning and …
By Dug Begley      blog.chron.com
If Houston were the ocean, the city’s public works department would be the giant squid: It lives deep, where few people can see it; only occasionally does it wash ashore to scare people; and it’s capable of grasping anything it wants and dragging it down into a morass of darkness and slow, agonizing death.
The department, the city’s largest in terms of employees, has its tentacles in a lot of functions that largely go unnoticed. It operates in a methodical way that many find cumbersome and resistant to feedback. That sense of isolation has changed in recent months, but public works is still a big glob of rules and …
New Event Added to Texbiker.net Calendar
Tweets About Texas Bicycling
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