{"id":30872,"date":"2015-09-03T00:19:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=30872"},"modified":"2015-09-03T00:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T05:19:29","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-september-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/texas-bicycling-news-september-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News September 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech offers bike clinics, registration for students<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Easton Wollney \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.dailytoreador.com<\/h3>\n

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\nTexas Tech offers free registration, clinics and racks for bicyclists on campus and is a designated bronze level bicycle university by the League of American Bicyclists.
\nStacy Stockard, marketing coordinator for Transportation and Parking Services, said the bicycle racks are in place so students do not use hand rails, which could interfere with the visually impaired, or trees to park bikes. Bicyclists can …<\/p>\n

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City updates plan for bicycling network<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Allen Jones\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0www.chron.com<\/h3>\n

Bike blueprint to establish new paths, trail connectors for more destinations
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\nThe city of Houston is building on its efforts to improve people’s ability to bicycle to more destinations, including within the Memorial and Energy Corridor areas where local improvement districts are already contributing plans to update biking networks.
\nThe city is spending $500,000 to update a 1993 bike plan to improve its bicycling network citywide. The blueprint will establish new paths and trail connectors based on development and traffic patterns that have occurred since the 1990s. The Houston Bike Plan, which has an April completion deadline, also will include possible funding sources for the various bike network projects and programs.
\n“The plan doesn’t only look at where we build new facilities and how we can build safer facilities, it also looks at the …<\/p>\n