{"id":2391,"date":"2009-06-01T22:27:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T04:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2009-06-01T22:27:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T04:27:49","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for June 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/DN-citwatchdog_01.ART.State.Edition1.507933f.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/DN-citwatchdog_01.ART.State.Edition1.507933f.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dallas County to get $74M slice of transit stimulus pie<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Dallas Morning News &#8211; Dallas,TX,USA<br \/>\nAs of Friday, Dallas County had eight projects totaling nearly $74 million, including new bicycle and pedestrian paths, a new traffic signal in Cedar Hill &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/cycling\/entries\/2009\/06\/01\/safe_passing_bill_passes_senat.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/cycling\/entries\/2009\/06\/01\/safe_passing_bill_passes_senat.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Safe passing bill passes Senate<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Austin 360 &#8211; Austin,TX,USA<br \/>\nBy Jason Whaley | Monday, June 1, 2009, 06:32 PM The final version of the Safe Passing Bill, SB 488, was passed by the Texas House. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/aboutourmomma.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/bike-fodder.html\" href=\"http:\/\/aboutourmomma.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/bike-fodder.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>About Our Momma: Bike fodder<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Denverette<br \/>\nMelodie (previously Melodie Faulkner) and Zak Weis participated in a 100-mile bike tour yesterday in the canyon in Amarillo, Texas. Their team was in honor of mums and Ron Walker. They dedicated one full hour to mom and sponsored a team &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cxhairs.com\/2009\/06\/01\/if-the-bike-fits-race-it-a-chat-with-beth-mason\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cxhairs.com\/2009\/06\/01\/if-the-bike-fits-race-it-a-chat-with-beth-mason\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>If The Bike Fits, Race It: A Chat With Beth Mason \u00e2\u20ac\u201d In The Crosshairs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby schiek<br \/>\nIn 1994, when I was 24 I joined the Army and started my Master&#8217;s in Physical Therapy in Texas. I had to get a new bike because my mother wanted her bike back (killjoy). I went to an LBS in San Antonio, Britton&#8217;s Bike Shop, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/environment\/46587612.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/environment\/46587612.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Plans rolling along for Salado Creek trails<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby San Antonio Express &#8211; San Antonio,TX,USA<br \/>\nBy Colin mcdonald &#8211; Express-News On Sunday mornings, 11-year-old Peter Drury often can be found on his mountain bike, ducking around trees and chasing his dad, David Drury, down the twisting dirt trails of Salado Creek. &#8230; While almost all of the land is publicly owned, the city won&#8217;t build the 10-foot-wide paved trail until the Texas Department of Transportation builds Wurzbach Parkway because it does not want highway construction to take out the trail, which costs about $1 million a mile to build. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bcullins.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/its-not-about-bike-lance-armstrong-once.html\" href=\"http:\/\/bcullins.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/its-not-about-bike-lance-armstrong-once.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Team San Angelo<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Bill Cullins<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Not About the Bike<br \/>\nLance Armstrong once said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not about the bike\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and he was right. A lot of cyclists spend way too much time obsessing over their bicycling equipment instead of just enjoying cycling. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas County to get $74M slice of transit stimulus pie by Dallas Morning News &#8211; Dallas,TX,USA As of Friday, Dallas County had eight projects totaling nearly $74 million, including new bicycle and pedestrian paths, a new traffic signal in Cedar <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-1st\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[660],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-Cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}