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News By Bike: Links for You to Read (Mar 18)

News By Bike: Links for You to Read (Mar 18)

Looking for some weekend reading? Look no further than these links we thought were worth sharing this week:

News By Bike: Links for You to Read (Mar 18)

From BikeTexas:

The 2016 Texas Trails and Active Transportation Conference is in the books, and what a great three days it was! Mark your calendar now for spring 2018–city to be announced soon. In the meantime, take a look back at three days of fun and learning in Houston.

Speaking of things that happened at TTAT: check out the news coverage of Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Wednesday address to the crowd.

And some more news coverage of the Electric Bike Expo.

Last week was a busy week in the world of bike advocacy– the National Bike Summit in D.C. was winding down right when TTAT was heating up. See news from the Texas delegation and others for Monday, day 1; Tuesday, day 2; and Wednesday, day 3.

And one other really cool thing happened last week–what was it? Oh, yeah, BikeTexas’ Fernando Martinez won the Alliance for Biking and Walking’s Advocate of the Year award.

Whew! That was a busy week. Now for one that didn’t happen last week, but is still crazy-exciting: Three Texas businesses are on the latest list of Bicycle Friendly Businesses from the League of American Bicyclists.

From around Texas:

Lots of great stuff is happening in El Paso (check out our event calendar!) including a presentation from Transit Center, “Recent Urban Transportation Innovations: What Can El Paso Learn from Portland, Denver, Charlotte, & New York?” happening Monday night. Don’t miss it!

Austin and seven other U.S. cities are finalists in the Smart City Challenge. They’re looking for big ideas that will change transportation for the better.

The draft bike plan for Houston has been released and needs your feedback! See the plan and offer comments here, and take the bike plan survey here.

Consider the bus stop shelter– using Houston as an example.

One more from Houston (lots of love for our TTAT host city this week): some streets that are easily bikeable for the non-fearless crowd get a shoutout.

Councilmember Shirley Gonzales wants safer streets for her San Antonio district.

From elsewhere:

San Francisco just made a huge shift in how it measures transportation.

What happened when Seoul tore down a highway in the middle of the city.

A call to ban right turns on red for good.

NYC is planning to set a new record for building protected bike lanes this year– right after setting a record last year.

“One kilometer driven by car costs society about 17 cents (15 euro cents), whereas society gains 18 cents (16 euro cents) for each kilometer cycled.”

Miss the Vision Zero conference? Here are some key takeaways.

The FHWA has officially announced its new bike-ped safety performance measures.

Who wants to work in this bicyclist’s dream office?

It’s not your imagination: traffic really is sucking hours of your life away.

But we all know how to fix that, right?

Have a great weekend!

Photo: TTAT attendees enjoy the Electric Bike Expo in Houston. Photo collage courtesy of Velo Paso.

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