Archive for June, 2011
Last night the City of Arlington Council Chambers were overflowing. Almost 100 people spoke – over 300 were in attendance. It was a long meeting with lots of amazing and inspiring speeches in support, and (as usual) plenty of misinformation, attacks, and ludicrous conspiracy theories in opposition. Last Night’s Outcome Council voted to approve the [...]
It’s finally happening – the City of Arlington City Council Public Hearing for the Hike and Bike System Master Plan will be held: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 6:30 pm Arlington City Hall 101 W. Abram Street Things to know about the meeting: wear yellow. Bring your Hike and Bike Plan support shirt if you have [...]
Bike Friendly Arlington recently emailed City Council asking them to “Close the Gap” of Plan “C” and add back primary lanes and connections from the well researched and developed, original plan. Below is the e-mail. Help us get these changes realized. Write to City Council asking them to make Plan “C” a safer, better connected, [...]
Cities all around the Metroplex are making great strides to advance bicycle infrastructure. Fort Worth Fort Worth unanimously approved their BikeFW plan in February of 2010. This plan provides 480 miles of on-street bike lanes, 218 miles of on-street bike routes, and 224 miles of off-street trails. As Mayor Mike Moncrief stated before he voted to approve [...]
Bicycle infrastructure is on a roll in the DFW metroplex! Dallas recently passed their 2011 Dallas Bike Plan and the Bike Fort Worth Plan has already implemented an impressive number of bike lanes and routes and created a vibrant community atmosphere in the Near Southside District. Arlington City Council will vote on a modified version of Arlington’s Hike and [...]
We’re posting another letter we sent to the opposition’s leader, Mr. Buddy Saunders. We look forward to a response. ########################################### Dear Mr. Saunders, On the eve of the Thoroughfare Development Plan public hearing our readership has forwarded us your SOS Update #57. We have read it and attached our analysis below. We request that [...]
We’re posting a letter we sent to the opposition’s leader, Mr. Buddy Saunders. We look forward to a response. ########################################### Dear Mr. Saunders, We have been forwarded a few of your SOS updates by our readership. Frankly, we find some, if not most of your statements misleading and others blatantly false. From Update #54 stems [...]
Arlington is a city of over 360,000 people in an area of almost 100 square miles. But until recently we’ve only had one full-service, bikes only, bike shop. We’ve needed another one for a while, and we finally have one in downtown Arlington: Acme Bike Co! Acme was opened by the same guys who opened [...]
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