Bikes Belong’s mission is simple, get more people on bikes more often. They awarded BFOC $5,000 because of you! You got out and road a bike and over the last two years our bicycle ridership has risen 219%. Thank you for riding and supporting our local bicycle shops. Our rides have worked to get the […]
Ride with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff to the screening of RoboCop this weekend. This series being put on by Dallas Observer aims to “See it where they shot it”. The first installment is set for City Hall where scenes from RoboCop where filmed. All the details are here. Meet at BFOC’s newest bike friendly destination Jonathon’s Oak […]
reposted from the betterblock.org site One of the key assumptions we were excited to test and debunk during the Ross Project was that Dallas could not create viable pedestrian spaces due to being too hot and car-centric. Specifically, the thought of placing a market in the center of a major arterial was formerly considered untenable […]
If you’re planning on heading out to Ross Avenue on Sunday, expect to see some awesome wayfinding signage developed by BFOC’er Robbie Good, of focusEGD.
The city of Dallas is sponsoring its first Ciclovia inspired ride, dubbed “Dallasvias”. Coordinators are planning a “meet-up” downtown at Main Street Garden Park at 10:00AM. At 10:30AM riders will loop around the downtown then head to the Dallas Complete Streets Kickoff/Better Block on Ross Avenue at approximately 11AM. With enough willing participants, Cycle Sunday […]
A new bike friendly group has been officially launched! Bike Friendly Dallas will help to bring together citizens of Dallas on two wheels, and be an aggregate of information from all neighborhoods of the city. Furthermore, one of it’s main missions will be to ensure the new 2011 Dallas Bike Plan is fully realized, and […]
We’re meeting this morning at 9AM at Oddfellows in Bishop Arts to ride over to the Mavs Parade downtown. Join us!
The Dallas Complete Street’s Kickoff is on Sunday, June 26th from 11AM – 4PM. Head out to Ross Avenue between Pavillion and N. Hawkins to take part in a “Complete Street” demonstration which will incorporate bike lanes, traffic calming measures, cafe seating, shade, improved landscaping, and change a portion of Ross from a thoroughfare, to […]
Mayoral candidates David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings visit before the ride. photo by Andrea Roberts Thanks to all who made it out to the Hellhound on My Trail history ride. We had nearly 100 take part, including both mayoral candidates David Kunkle, and Mike Rawlings. The temperature hovered around 95 degrees, but everyone did […]
Dallas’s Bike Coordinator, Max Kalhammer, Reviews the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan map Yesterday, Dallas made great strides in removing itself from the list of “auto-dominated cities” to one that is now embracing the worldwide movement of “complete streets” with bicycling leading the charge. After a year in the making, the city’s 2011 bike plan was unanimously adopted […]
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