{"id":38622,"date":"2018-01-20T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=38622"},"modified":"2018-01-20T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T04:53:11","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-digest-january-20th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/20\/texas-bicycling-news-digest-january-20th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Digest January 20th 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ride or comply: Council to vote on new bike sharing ordinance<\/a><\/h2>\n

Kelsey Samuels | starlocalmedia.com<\/h3>\n


\nt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to ignore the bikes in Downtown Plano, mainly because these bikes aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just in that area anymore. After a few months of testing the waters, LimeBikes, VBikes and OFO bikes are scattered across street corners and sidewalks in Plano.<\/p>\n

Though several residents have responded positively, several residents have also expressed concerns with bikes blocking sidewalks or left abandoned for weeks at a time. …<\/p>\n

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City of Dallas Tell Bike-Share Companies to Clean Up Their Act<\/a><\/h2>\n

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


\nDALLAS (WBAP\/KLIF) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The City of Dallas put bike share companies on notice to clean up their act by February 9th or the city will do it for them.<\/p>\n

City Manager T.C. Broadnax sent a letter to the five companies, such as Lyme and Ofo, that operate in Dallas\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 telling them if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t meet the deadline, the city will start …<\/p>\n

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For the disabled, rent-a-bikes are more than an annoyance, but do they violate the ADA?<\/a><\/h2>\n

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

An accident destroyed most of Melody Townsel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to balance on her left leg. She tried to get around on crutches, a scooter, and eventually chose to use a motorized wheelchair because it can run over just about any obstacle.<\/p>\n

Anything, she said, except the colorful rent-a-bikes that have been clogging sidewalks and DART trains around Dallas since they first made their appearance last summer.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great idea. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not anti-bike, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m anti-current bike practice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Townsel, a teacher at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What happens is that quite often I find the bikes lying on their side across the entirety of a sidewalk.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d …<\/p>\n

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LimeBike Sawed in Half, Bolted to Deep Ellum Telephone Pole<\/a><\/h2>\n

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


\nBikeshare provider LimeBike says they are proud to serve the people and city of Dallas — even after someone sawed one of their bikes in half and bolted it to a telephone pole overnight Thursday.<\/p>\n

Via Twitter, the company said Friday they had sent operational leads to Deep Ellum to retrieve the bike. …<\/p>\n

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