Category Editorial
A Tale of Two Planners
(Portland, Oregon) Dallas’ former bike coordinator is on another tirade against Alta-Planning, the award winning bicycle planning firm based in Portland, Oregon. We felt it would be good to provide everyone with a bit of the history here, as it’s a fascinating story. If you do a search on CycleDallas’ site for “Alta”, you pull […]
The Perception of Safety
While working out of Fountain Place tower yesterday, I noticed the window washers pass by my 48th floor office, and thought, “who on earth would sign up for that job?” The reality was, the person washing the window was standing on a tethered platform, and had a second tether attached to themselves from the rooftop. […]
Beating the Heat in Melbourne, Australia
When studying cities around the world that have strong multi-modal transportation options (bicycle infrastructure, streetcars, pedestrian paths), a high level of walkability, and an active downtown life, it’s hard to beat Australia’s second most populous city, Melbourne. In previous articles, we discussed roadblocks to creating a vital downtown life given the climate in the South…Melbourne […]
Revisioning a Street for a Community
On CycleSmartDallas, a recent post titled “Friday Bike-Lane Special” uses the above photo to justify the failures of bicycle facilities with the added comment, “advocates for segregationist bicycle facilities like being treated this way”. Given that we’re advocates for separated transit modes in urban environments like sidewalks, bus-only lanes, and cycle tracks, I’m assuming we’re […]
Little Cyclists in the OC
(photos by Ange Fitzgerald at the Tyler St. Bicycle Block Party) It was great to see so many little ones out and about at the bicycle block party on Saturday. BFOC has several plans in the works to reach out more to young families and kids in the near future. For starters, we’ve met with […]
The Transect
Something we covered in the Bike Lane Primer article that I wanted to focus more on here is the concept in Urbanism known as Transect Zones. When we’re debating on how to properly build city infrastructure and specifically where bike lanes would work, one thing I’d stress is that how you build for one part […]
A Primer on Modern Bike Lanes
We had some great comments in an earlier post referencing concerns about bike lanes. With that in mind, BFOC wanted to post some images of poor and well planned bicycle infrastructure. As stated in a prior post, most US cities were well behind the curve in attempting to develop a bicycle friendly network. The planners […]
Planning for the 21st Century
After World War II, a push was made to redesign cities to allow for quick growth of the suburbs and moving people away from downtown. The model for planning followed suit with a single consideration: Build for cars, not for people. With this came a rush of new designs for skyways between buildings, widening streets […]
The Other Flying Machine
(the Wright St. Clair) So we’re obviously advocates for building Frankenbikes, not just for keeping costs down, but also the idea of recycling old and forgotten velos. My commuter has now become a mainstay for riding around town, but for my next project, I would like to recreate the beautiful lines of an old racer. […]
A Return to Cycling
(image from ecovelo.info) Bike Friendly Oak Cliff is nearing a year in existence, and we’ve learned quite a bit in that short time. It’s been heartening seeing the number of people come out on our rides, and the businesses get excited about helping us out with discount programs. Some events have been well received, and […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 