Dallas’ Bike Coordinator and bike lane antagonist, PM Summer, responded to our recent posting on Oak Cliff’s bikelane effort with a “those crazy hipster kids are drinkin’ the kool-aid”post of his own. Quote: The neo-urban hipsters, on the other hand, are at once proud of Oak Cliff and desirous that it be something else. That […]
Image from Gunnisal on Flickr So you’ve probably been on vacation in some uber-cool city like Portland or Boulder, and/or overseas to Amsterdam or London, and noticed hundreds of residents, young and old, on bicycles meandering slowly around bike lanes built through the heart of their respective downtown’s. Then you hopped on a plane, landed […]
How to Polarike: Bring a bike Bring a Polaroid camera and film Bring lots and lots of friends Ride, take pictures, swap, keep Polariking an informal cycling party in which you gather your friends and neighbors to ride around your area for an allocated amount of time to snap Polaroids that will be up for […]
Bike lanes and other bicycle facilities have been absolutely instrumental to the success we’ve had in increasing ridership. Our city auditor now reports that 8% of Portlanders identify the bicycle as their primary commute vehicle and another 10% identify it as their secondary commute vehicle. That’s up from 6% and 10%, respectively last year. – […]
Houston Street Viaduct Initiative Originally uploaded by Jason Eric Roberts Several of us involved with BFOC are on the board of the Alternative Transportation Committee at the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce, and are advocating making the Houston Street Viaduct a major multi-modal transit bridge linking Downtown Dallas to North Oak Cliff. Right now, if […]
First off, welcome to the new blog site for Bike Friendly Oak Cliff! We are a group of cycling advocates that are promoting the creation of better bicycle facilities for Oak Cliff. Our first major effort to bring greater community awareness to bicycling was the highly successful Bicycle Racks for Businesses pledge drive, which netted […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 