Category Bike News
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 […]
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. […]
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? […]
Gold Sprints Competition
We’re getting this out a little late, but wanted to make sure everyone knew about the Gold Sprints Competition. Three locations and dates including: 3/22 at Lola’s in Fort Worth 3/30 at Rubber Gloves in Denton and 4/22 at Doublewide in Dallas Looks like Chrome is a sponsor, so there might be some cool accessories […]
And…Bike Friendly Lakewood!
Wow…we have been asleep at the wheel…Bike Friendly Lakewood is officially up as well! It looks like their Facebook group is updated more frequently than the blog, so be sure to check in both places for events and news in the area.
Bike Friendly Arlington Online!
We’ve been a little slow at our game, and somehow overlooked one of the latest members of the BF Family: Bike Friendly Arlington! Be sure to show them your support and check-up on all things happening at BFA if you happen to be in the mid-cities area.
Google Now Mapping Dallas Bicycle Trails
Google is now offering an option to note bicycle directions when requesting routes within Google Maps. It’s a good way to see a birds-eye view of our trail system, and will hopefully help when plans develop to complete the comprehensive bike/ped map for the city.
BFOCer’s on NPR’s THINK
(image from Oak Cliff People) Tomorrow at 1PM, Community Organizer Amy Cowan, OC Community Garden Founder Mariana Griggs, and BFOC Co-Founder/OCTA President Jason Roberts will be on NPR’s THINK on 90.1FM. Tune in to hear about all of the new activism occurring on the left banke of the river.
More From the OC Community Gardens: Experiments on Code Hybridization
Article by OC Community Garden Advocate, Scott Griggs In gardening and biology, hybridization is the crossbreeding of two species to create a plant with some characteristics of each parent. We all remember high school botany and the stories of the great Gregor Mendel using hybridization in pea plants to discover that one inheritable trait would […]
A chance to fight for our community gardens!
(photo from Willard Farms) Many of you may know that BFOC has several community gardener’s as members, and currently we’re planning a group ride which takes you to visit several of the plots they currently have developed. With that in mind, Mariana Griggs, Founder of Oak Cliff Community Gardens sends out a note to all […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 