{"id":38202,"date":"2018-01-01T23:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=38202"},"modified":"2018-01-01T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:21:27","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-digest-january-1st-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/01\/texas-bicycling-news-digest-january-1st-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Digest January 1st 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bikes, bonds and big plans: 6 things to watch at Dallas City Hall in 2018<\/a><\/h2>\n

www.dallasnews.com<\/h3>\n

Dallas City Hall spent 2017 staring down the ghosts of years and decades past: Confederate monuments, the police and fire pension mess, the Trinity toll road, four of six back-pay lawsuits and billions in deferred maintenance.
\nSave for the sudden arrival of Amazon or another twist, 2018 shouldn’t be as dramatic as last year. But consequences are still ahead at Dallas City Hall in the coming year.
\nHere are six things to watch in the new year. …<\/p>\n

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  1. Bike regulations
    \nA LimeBike and Spin bike are left in front of Union Station in downtown Dallas. (Ron Baselice\/Staff Photographer)
    \nLast year brought thousands of brightly colored, buck-an-hour bikes to the city’s sidewalks. The four bike-share companies have received both credit and criticism.
    \nIn 2018, the city will at least tap the brakes on the unregulated market. The bikes are likely here to stay, but the era of the bike share “experiment” or “pilot program,” as city officials have called it, will come to an end. Regulations limiting the number of bikes appear to be coming. Options will be presented to the council in the new year. …<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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