(Collins and Abram – a Typical street in Arlington) After years of developing a dangerous, high-speed road network that was cold, desolate and uninviting to pedestrians, bicyclists, children, or elders, Arlington has finally decided to move forward with an impressive bike plan that looks to fundamentally change the road network into one that will make the city a shining […]
(Ean Parsons and Jeremy Ordaz) UPDATE: Thanks to the BFOC Community, one of the perpetrators has been identified in the comments section! Owners of the Oak Cliff Bicycle Company, Jeremy Ordaz and Ean Parsons, foiled a recent bike theft in North Oak Cliff after two men walked into the store purporting to have a bicycle […]
(Image from Esquire.com) Janette Sadik-Kahn, the head of NYC’s Department of Transportation, was profiled in this month’s Esquire magazine. Janette is responsible for the incredible pedestrian plaza, and bike network that has sprung up in less than 5 years. Her era of city redevelopment has reduced traffic accidents to historic lows, increased bicycle ridership exponentially, […]
Since moving to a one car household back in July of this year, certain adjustments had to be made. First, we share household chores and I don’t get out of doing my turn of the shopping just because I don’t have a car. Nor do I always want to wait to get the car to […]
We never expected a 72 degree day near the end of November, but that didn’t stop nearly 300 people from coming out decked in tweed and wool for the second annual Dallas Tweed Ride. Special thanks to the Turner House for hosting us, the games committee for providing a ton of great entertainment upon our […]
Here at BFOC we noticed that our local elementary schools had little to no children bicycling to campus, and after doing some research learned that this is an alarming trend occuring throughout the nation. According to the FHA, 50% of children bicycled to school in 1969. Today, it’s under 15%. What’s incredible is that I […]
Team BFOC is getting ramped up for the Dallas Tweed Ride on November 21st. We’ve confirmed use of the yard at the historic Turner House in North Oak Cliff. It will be the perfect backdrop for the ride and we’ll plan on having a series of over-the-top British games inspired by the Chap Olympiad: If […]
(photo by Elliott Munoz)
BFOC has started working closely with Rosemont Elementary school to promote bicycling for students. Starting on Monday (Nov. 8th), we’re kicking off a “Bike to School” week, where we’ll have a team of volunteers give cards to all of the kids who ride in to school. This week, kids have been busy designing posters and […]
Bicycle facilities come in many shapes and sizes from shared lanes with cars to median separated “cycle tracks”. Dallas is considering a number of these and we saw them in stick figure form at the bike meeting a few months ago, but what do they really look like and more importantly what are they like […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 