Author Archives: Jason Roberts
Go Oak Cliff presents the “THINK small” campaign
Leading up to the Oak Cliff Art Crawl, and Better Block Project, BFOC/Go Oak Cliff members are unveiling the “THINK small” campaign, which is developed as a response to the sophistical “Live Large, Think Big” campaign lead by Dallas CVB. It’s the “Think BIG” campaigns which brought us underground mall-tunnels, giant inhospitable concrete plazas in […]
Jan Gehl, Planner for NYC Bike Lanes and People Spaces Interview
The Sierra Club has a great interview with Jan Gehl, Copenhagen planner and consultant for New York City’s new bike and public spaces infrastrcture. Jan details the ideas behind creating more “human-scaled” places, and specfically notes how making accommodations for bicyclists is a key to creating a more livable city. One major point in our […]
“Putting Together the Pieces” Community Update forum tonight at Methodist
Come out to Hitt Auditorium at Methodist Hospital tonight for the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce lead “Putting Together the Pieces” community update. There will be presentations and updates from various North Oak Cliff community organizations, including Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, the Oak Cliff Transit Authority, Community Gardens and more. The event starts at 7PM, […]
Better Block Shops are gearing up for this weekend
In preparation for the Oak Cliff Art Crawl this weekend, we’re planning on posting something each day in regards to events and happenings occurring throughout North Oak Cliff. Today, we wanted to focus on the three pop-up businesses being installed for the weekend: Philospophia Cafe, 415 N. Tyler Saturday 10am-8pm; Sunday 10am-6pm This fun little […]
Dallas Earliest Bike Messengers
This is a picture of my wife’s grandfather, Gordon Mackenzie, as a young Western Union messenger boy in Dallas circa 1923 (third from left). Gordon died last year at the age of 96 but was a messenger from the age of 12 to 14. He’d tell us stories about his Western Union days, and wearing […]
Update on Better Block Planning and other News
BFOCer Doug Costin uploaded a video of our planning work for the Better Block project for the Oak Cliff Art Crawl. We have architects modeling the block now in SketchUp and will start showcasing some of the design changes here soon: Our hope is to eventually work with our area high schools to model all […]
Camping by Bike, April 16th
(picture from RV-Roadtrips.com) Fellow BFOC’er and leader of 75208 Colin Clarke, is heading up a campout touring ride on April 16th. Here’s the full description from Colin: We are riding to the lake to camp for the weekend of April 16-18. This is touring practice. Our goal is to find what it takes for touring […]
Pints for Paint a Success!
Go Oak Cliff was able to raise $3,500 at the Pints for Paint event at Eno’s new upstairs pub last Thursday night. The proceeds benefit the Seventh Street Mural Project which is being developed to help create a family friendly bike and pedestrian corridor along a street that is often tagged by graffiti and blight. […]
The Better Block Project
As part of the Oak Cliff Art Crawl several BFOCer’s along with Go Oak Cliff are creating a “living block” art installation, where we’ll be taking a car-centric four lane street with poor zoning and restrictive development ordinances, and convert it into a people-friendly neighborhood block. For two days only, we’ll install three pop-up businesses, […]
Women’s Cycling Survey
(Image from Copenhagencyclechic.com) The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Planners launched a survey earlier this month to gather womens’ thoughts on cycling. More from Renée Burke Jordan: Survey results will offer a snapshot in time while furthering a lively discussion blossoming in the U.S., Canada and England. Why don’t – or do – women bicycle? […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 