{"id":6894,"date":"2010-12-30T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T05:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2010-12-30T23:46:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T05:46:15","slug":"daily-news-roundup-december-30th-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/daily-news-roundup-december-30th-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup December 30th &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\" http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/green\/UPS_Pedals_Packages_to_Your_Front_Door_Dallas-Fort_Worth-112450414.html\" href=\" http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/green\/UPS_Pedals_Packages_to_Your_Front_Door_Dallas-Fort_Worth-112450414.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>UPS Delivers by Bicycle in Dallas\/Fort Worth Area<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nUPS cites efficiency, cost, and environmental friendliness in their explanation of why they chose to deploy bicycle (actually tricycle!) delivery in some areas this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\/?p=1341\" href=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\/?p=1341\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d Like To Address A Small Gap In The Central Trail Plan<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Bike Friendly Richardson by dickdavid<br \/>\nWe are very fortunate to have such an aggressive Bike and Pedestrian Plan in Richardson. The city planners are doing a great job retrofitting some new trails and bike lanes into an older, built-out infrastructure.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5088\/5276732077_43f0e1e296_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"Bike Friendly Richardson\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\nIn that plan is the Central Trail, which will provide passage through Richardson. When completed, it will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/forums.mtbr.com\/showthread.php?t=675706\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.mtbr.com\/showthread.php?t=675706\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Commuting in Lufkin Tx &#8211; Mountain Bike Forums<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom forums.mtbr.com<br \/>\nI have looked at a lot of different gear(online only there is not a good bike store here) but I am afraid that most of it will be to much for me here in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.ghostbikes.org\/amarillo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostbikes.org\/amarillo\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Amarillo Ghost Bike<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom www.ghostbikes.org<br \/>\nShare the ROAD! is an Amarillo, TX based organization created in July, 2010 following the death of Cindy Whitney, a community leader, who was killed on her bicycle by a distracted driver. StR! placed a ghost bike at the scene of her death in early December 2010&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPS Delivers by Bicycle in Dallas\/Fort Worth Area UPS cites efficiency, cost, and environmental friendliness in their explanation of why they chose to deploy bicycle (actually tricycle!) delivery in some areas this holiday season. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d Like To Address A Small <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/daily-news-roundup-december-30th-texas-bicycling-2\/\"><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":[2362,377,2363,5253,2361],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-central-trail-plan","tag-commuting","tag-ghost-bike","tag-news","tag-ups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1Nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}