{"id":7787,"date":"2011-03-25T23:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2011-03-25T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T04:52:12","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/metro\/~3\/4lVr6dxWJqg\/7491397.html\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/metro\/~3\/4lVr6dxWJqg\/7491397.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Transportation council commits remaining funds to roads, rail<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nvia chron.com Houston &amp; Texas News on 3\/25\/11<br \/>\nThe regional Transportation Policy Council today voted to allocate its remaining discretionary funds for the next three years to road and freight rail projects, giving no additional money to bicycle- or pedestrian-friendly projects. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.biketexas.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biketexas.org\/en\/news\/community\/1076-txdot-releases-new-guidelines-stressing-inclusion-of-walking-and-biking\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>TXDOT releases new guidelines stressing inclusion of walking and biking<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBikeTexas is excited to announce that the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has released a new guidance memo affirming the importance of building roads to include space for people to walk and ride bicycles. Released on March 23, 2011, by John&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\" href=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\/2011\/03\/25\/ride-into-spring-with-bfkh-this-sunday\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Ride Into Spring With BFKH This Sunday<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby dickdavid<br \/>\nOur friends over at Bike Friendly Knox-Henderson are hosting another Ride Into Spring group ride. Head on down to Mockingbird Station on Sunday and enjoy a fantastic cruise to White Rock Lake.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlykh.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/spring-ride-poster.jpg?w=339&#038;h=524&#038;fit=339%2C524&#038;resize=339%2C523\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"523\" \/><br \/>\nDate: Sunday, March 27, 2011<br \/>\nTime: Meet at 1:30, Ride at 2:00 pm<br \/>\nPlace: near the Angelika Theater at Mockingbird Station<br \/>\nDetails: The first part of our ride will be through the M Streets to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bikingindallas.com\/pedallas-presents-the-night-shift-alley-cat-april\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikingindallas.com\/pedallas-presents-the-night-shift-alley-cat-april\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Pedallas presents the Night Shift Alley Cat \u00e2\u20ac\u201c April 1st<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby The Announcer Guy<br \/>\nPedallas (one of the coolest bike blogs in North Texas, in case you live under a rock) is hosting an Alley Cat race they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re calling The Night Shift on Friday, April 1st. Starts at 8pm &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.ktxs.com\/news\/27322679\/detail.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktxs.com\/news\/27322679\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Space Still Available For Steam-N-Wheel Bike Race<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby KTXS<br \/>\nBy Cassandra Garcia, KTXS News ABILENE, Texas &#8212; There is still time to sign up for the 19th annual Steam-N-Wheel bike race. Participants will be able to pick from three different distances, starting at 21 miles. The race will start Sunday at 10 am at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/jackandadams.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/jackandadams.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/texas-4000-tribute-fashion-show.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Texas 4000 Tribute Fashion Show<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCome out and support the Texas 4000 organization in their quest to fight cancer by attending the 2011 Texas 4000 Tribute Fashion Show.<br \/>\nBoConcept will host a Style Show on Thursday, March 31, 2011 to raise awareness for Texas 4000. The show will highlight local Austin retail stores and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.kwtx.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/news\/headlines\/Killeen_Ride_2_Recovery_Cycling_through_Central_Texas_For_Veterans_118662374.html?ref=374\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Killeen: Ride 2 Recovery Cycling Through Central Texas For Veterans<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby KWTX<br \/>\nKILLEEN (MARCH 25, 2011)&#8211;As an opportunity to raise public awareness of challenges veterans face, the 3rd annual Ride 2 Recovery participants will start cycling on March 28 and end on April 2. The ride started in 2009 to assist wounded warriors coming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation council commits remaining funds to roads, rail via chron.com Houston &amp; Texas News on 3\/25\/11 The regional Transportation Policy Council today voted to allocate its remaining discretionary funds for the next three years to road and freight rail projects, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-25th\/\"><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":[660,2604,1579,2603,2605,237,2512,129],"class_list":["post-7787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-pedallas","tag-ride-2-recovery","tag-ride-into-spring","tag-steam-n-wheel","tag-texas-4000","tag-transportation-policy-council","tag-txdot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-21B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787","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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}