Call for DFW Artists Photopol.us and Bike Friendly Oak Cliff invite you to apply to exhibit and sell your artwork at the first annual Oak Cliff Art Crawl. Several Oak Cliff galleries will be open on April 25th from 4pm – 9pm, as well as the historic Texas Theater. Hundreds of visitors and art collectors […]
The January 2009 issue of “Oregon Business”, wrote a cover story on the highly successful bicycle industry which has grown throughout Portland since the advent of bicycle infrastructure. As we noted from a past interview with Portland’s bike coordinator, Roger Geller, cycling as a main form of a transit has risen to 8% modal share […]
DART rolled out its newest trains a few months back, called SLRV’s. These have several enhancements including ground level entrance for better ADA compliancy, and two bike hooks per car! Right now, there’s only a handful of these cars, and you don’t see them on every grouping of trains, but the indicator to look for […]
This clip is from the documentary, “Contested Streets”, put out by Transportation Alternatives in New York. Jan Gehl is one of the originators of the New Urbanism movement, and was instrumental in turning Copenhagen into the “Bike Capital of the World”. When advocating for better bike facilities in North Texas, we often hear: “We’re Dallas, […]
Update! It looks like we may double the attendance of our last ride, which was 125. The Belmont Hotel is offering all cyclists $2 Shiners, so tell everyone you know! Join our Facebook group here With the awesome success of the Lee Harvey Bike Ride, we’ve decided to roll out our next themed ride: On […]
If you took pictures of cyclists in the Oak Cliff Krewe on Bishop, please join our Flickr group and upload them.
Thanks to all who were able to make it out to the Mardi Gras Parade in Bishop Arts yesterday. We had a great showing. It was amazing to see members from 5 to 65 years old decked out in orange wheeling down Bishop, all promoting the Bicycle Oak Cliff message!
While riding down Mockingbird the other day, we ran across a new bike shop located in the old Segway store. You’ll notice from the image above that remnants of the old sign are still in place. This new shop is called Fleetwood’s Kit-Kat, and is filled with new retro styled cruisers built by Felt: They […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff invites you to ride in the inaugural Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade! Meet us in the parking lot of the Hitt Auditorium (Colorado Boulevard and Bishop Avenue) at Methodist Dallas Medical Center at 3:15. The parade kicks off there at 4 p.m. and proceeds 1.2 miles south on North Bishop Ave. […]
The Austin Business Journal notes that State Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, and State Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Southlake, are co-sponsors of legislation that would allow local communities to raise taxes or fees to support urban and suburban commuter rail lines and highways. The bill they filed allows for North Texas to take greater control over its […]
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