{"id":2491,"date":"2009-06-18T22:29:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2009-06-18T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:29:22","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for June 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/cycledallas.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/nctcog-bpac.html\" href=\"http:\/\/cycledallas.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/nctcog-bpac.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>C y c l e * D a l l a s: NCTCOG &#8220;BPAC&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Steve A<br \/>\nNCTCOG &#8220;BPAC&#8221;<br \/>\nI went to the first meeting of the new North Texas Bike\/Ped Advisory Committee today. Highlights follow chronologically:<\/p>\n<p>* Bike rack was around the back as promised &#8211; there was a locked door nearby, but all the unlocked doors were&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/06\/18\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-618-62409\/\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/06\/18\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-618-62409\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 6\/18- 6\/24\/09 | Austin On Two &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby elliott<br \/>\nBicycle Advisory Council 6:30 PM One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Rd, 8th floor large conference room. The Austin Bicycle Advisory Council is a committee of Austinites representing cyclists&#8217; interests to the City of Austin and meets &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/cycling\/6485666.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/cycling\/6485666.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cycling Notebook: Cyclists call for cleaner streets<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Houston Chronicle &#8211; United States<br \/>\nBy the way, the League of American Bicyclists ranks Texas as a whole 36th among the 50 states in being cycling friendly. Not acceptable. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/news\/local\/48301802.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/news\/local\/48301802.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tired of Rising Gas Prices? Dump the Pump!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby KIII TV3 &#8211; TX,USA<br \/>\nOne driver we spoke with said she was paying $80 to fill up, another said she was considering investing in a bicycle. Instead, everyone can &#8220;dump the pump&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mpinky96.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/age-based-texas-state-championship.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mpinky96.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/age-based-texas-state-championship.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Pincus&#8217;s Cycling blog: Age Based Texas State Championship &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Michael Pincus<br \/>\nGoing to this race I wanted to win. I didn&#8217;t want anything less than first. This was my first time racing against the Jr Texas field this year so I saw some old friends along with some new kids I have never seen before. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C y c l e * D a l l a s: NCTCOG &#8220;BPAC&#8221; by Steve A NCTCOG &#8220;BPAC&#8221; I went to the first meeting of the new North Texas Bike\/Ped Advisory Committee today. Highlights follow chronologically: * Bike rack <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-june-18th\/\"><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-2491","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-Eb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}