Weekend volunteers sweep through freshly reopened Chartres Street bike trail for cleanup

Peter Breen | www.houstonchronicle.com

Outfitted with brooms, dustpans, work gloves, trash bags and electric leaf blowers, a few dozen volunteers spent Saturday morning cleaning a bike trail near Chartres Street in downtown Houston.

Volunteers swept the short stretch of multimodel lane beneath Interstate 69 clean within a couple of hours. The city reopened the trail, which was fenced off prior to the pandemic because of a large homeless encampment, on June 22, according to Marika Mohr with BikeHouston. …

Public meeting planned regarding TxDOT plans to widen FM-1179

By Morgan Riddell | www.kbtx.com

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – TxDOT is holding a public information meeting Thursday, July 27 regarding work planned for FM-1179.

This project could impact residents traveling between Boonville Road and Easterling Drive. TxDOT plans to have designs to show residents at the meeting and will be available for questions.

According to the TxDOT Bryan District leaders, this project is in the planning stages and the goal is to widen FM-1179.

“The proposed improvements would widen the existing two-lane roadway to a four-lane roadway, two lanes in each direction separated by a raised median with dedicated left turn lanes at selected intersections. The project would also construct roundabouts at the Coyote Run Road and Merka Road / Steep Hollow Road intersections, as well as provide pedestrian and bicycle accommodations along the project corridor. …

2023 INEOS TdF Challenge_Stage 15 (part 1) Webster, Texas

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2023 INEOS TdF Challenge_Stage 14 (part 2) Pasadena, Texas

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Villa The Woodlands, Texas

Peter Clark | strava.com

Fargo goes past 6k…some day it’ll get used for adventure touring but has done a great job as a utility, commute, shop bike

Warmish SACA Ride San Antonio, Texas

Mark Noblitt MTCCSA | strava.com

I get weird things in my head, so today’s weird thing was riding until my distance and temperature numbers were the same. Mission (mostly) accomplished. Couldn’t make the decimals align. Yes, it annoys me, too. Also lost 2 mph on my average over the last 40 miles or so. I’ll blame it on the greenway, certainly not on my weak, old legs.

Tour de SA San Antonio, Texas

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SSolo DUBL!! Harris County, Texas

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Huntsville again Walker County, Texas

Kevin Highfield | strava.com

MS150 Day 1 Midland, Texas

POPCORN – The Old lion Leonard – King & I – Latitude Racing | strava.com

GOD – Grace me this ride JESUS – Grace me with the heart to finished Brutal last 15mi into the wind

7,000 Miles in 2023 Deer Park, Texas

Justin Imel | strava.com

My goal is 10,000 miles for the year. Well hon my way.

FLORESVILLE Ride. Thank to Gabe, Victor and Evan for keeping up with nice and constant pace San Antonio, Texas

Samuel Vargas | strava.com

Texas Biking from Twitter

Thanks to @MarikaMohr, advocacy powerhouse and minister of pain, for ensuring the opening of another vital connection in the Houston bicycling network. ?????? https://t.co/3wEQu3BIhG

— Ricky Cardenas (@emelbee24) July 16, 2023

@BikeHouston organized a cleanup at the newly reopened Chartres St shared used path and look who showed up: Ya’ll did! Thank You folks!

Cheers again team @Karla4Houston @planman72 @HoustonPlanning for opening up the lane. pic.twitter.com/l3nzFCYoUF

— Marika Mohr (@MarikaMohr) July 15, 2023

Citywide trail feasibility study begins in Katy

By Asia Armour | communityimpact.com

As one of the major components of the parks, recreation and trails master plan, Katy officials have begun planning a walkable, bikeable trail system that will weave through the entire city.

The details

At a June 26 meeting, City Council members approved Phase 1 of a trail feasibility study to connect neighborhoods with parks and other activity centers within the city, costing $14,930. The trail or series of trails would wind from Leyendecker Landing—a passive park dedicated to the city’s former engineer and located north near Pitts and Morton roads—to Avenue C and Third Street in the downtown area of Katy.

The city will use its 2021 park improvement bonds to pay for the feasibility study, per the …

Custom tricycle stolen from teenage girl with Down Syndrome

by Jamie Burch | abc7amarillo.com

AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — Amarillo police are looking for a custom tricycle stolen from a teenage girl with Down Syndrome.

“Keep an eye out for this Amtryke,” said APD. “We would love to get it back to Zoe!”

The Amtryke was stolen from the family’s driveway.

Zoe’s mom said they waited two years for the “one of a kind” trike to arrive. …

City buys parkland for $10

By Kevin Limiti | kdhnews.com

The Killeen City Council this week approved 5-0 to purchase 1.3 acres for a greenway trail that is intended to run through a recently rezoned property that is dedicated for retail use.

The land is located to the east of East Trimmier Road and north of Andalucia Lane in south Killeen.

According to the deed, the land was purchased by the city of Killeen for a grand total of $10. The council approved the purchase at Tuesday’s council meeting.

The point of the greenway trail, via the city of Killeen’s presentation on the resolution, is to connect to the Purser Family Hike and Bike Trail to the east and site of the future Preserve at Thousand Oaks to the west, of which there was no information on Thursday. …

Bike MS: Cactus & Crude Ride 2023

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July 15-16, 2023 Midland, TX Enjoy a full two-day experience across the flat desert terrain of West Texas and pedal to the finish line at English Newsome Cellars. Along the way, take photos of cactus, a sunrise as far as you can see and your ice cream when you stop to rest in Klondike. The hardest part of this ride isn’t the desert heat or miles – it’s leaving the incredible memories you’ll make with friends new and old as we come together to reach our goal: a world free of MS. 204 participants

Lunch Ride San Antonio, Texas

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Leon Creek Greenway Bike Trail… San Antonio

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Coffee with Friends plus… The Woodlands, Texas

Peter Clark | strava.com

Thanks to San Diego Mike for both organizing and coaching…steady miles was what I needed and what I got…

Nice ride, cloudy and almost cool. Everyone still in take it easy mode. Kerr County, Texas

Charles Strebeck | strava.com

C-MOB L3 Coffee ?? Ride (Garmin Forerunner 255 measured) Harris County, Texas

Christoph Klawun | strava.com

Fun ride, nice to bump into the early riders, and later drafting behind David Reynolds @DigitalKnightProductions and James Ranson to a PR on the C-MOB segment. I almost deleted this activity, but it measured 1 second faster on the C-MOB segment, so I had to keep it! And by the way: Allons enfants de la patrie! ?? (Happy Bastille Day!)

Texas Biking from Twitter

HTX Bike Social is back! Chill social ride tonight. RSVP at:https://t.co/ILV0RfhIUg#HTXBIKESOCIAL pic.twitter.com/vSCo6nNE97

— Critical Mass Houston (@HoustonCM) July 14, 2023

East 5th Street improvements are on the way! @austinmobility is proposing walk, bike, & roll improvements to the @redlineparkway.@CapMetroATX is also adding double-tracking and new Plaza Saltillo Station platforms.

View and support now: https://t.co/6mKo0dBUhT

— Red Line Parkway Initiative (@RedLineParkway) July 14, 2023

Take a look at Austin based https://t.co/35GHzyVOxG E-bike tour https://t.co/OvnASEbiJM

— Austin 360 (@austin360) July 14, 2023

? Bikeway cleanup! ?

Tomorrow (Saturday) morning, we’re sweeping the recently re-opened trail segment along Chartres Street (under I-69). Meet at Commerce & Chartres at 9 a.m. pic.twitter.com/EyylIhTEuL

— BikeHouston (@BikeHouston) July 14, 2023

The partnership between the Learning Center at The Jordan at Mueller and @texasmutual keeps getting better! Employees built and donated new bikes to the students weeks ago, and yesterday the kids rode the bikes to the TX Mutual corporate headquarters for a tour, lunch and games. pic.twitter.com/49nhs1YdlT

— Foundation Communities (@foundcom) July 14, 2023

Inside the 610 loop, we average 1.16 ped/bike crashes per day ?https://t.co/9XG7pR51Wq pic.twitter.com/5gOv2J9NUH

— Emmanuel Núñez (@emmanume) July 14, 2023

Our athlete Kathleen Hattaway did it again, winning yesterday's @DrivewaySeries Women's Open race! That's win #7 for her this year out of 18 races and equals a 38.889% winning rate!#rothetraining #drivewayseries #womenscycling pic.twitter.com/XHcgHwmi80

— ROTHE Training (@rothetraining) July 14, 2023

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New Event Added to Texbiker.net Calendar

Event added to the Texbiker calendar.https://t.co/k3HeDyVrSX

— Rick Ankrum (@texbiker) July 15, 2023