BikeNews; SR2S Lubbock

As part of the Safe Routes to School initiative, Durwood Mayfield, TBC Local Outreach Manager, and Sherman Phillips, TBC Local Outreach Coordinator, taught bicycle and pedestrian safety to students in kindergarten through 5th grade at four elementary schools in Lubbock this month. Students were taught the importance of wearing a helmet by describing what could […]

Durwood Mayfield, TBC Local Outreach Manager, and Sherman Phillips, TBC Local Outreach Coordinator, participated in Lubbock’s Safety City Kids Health Fair on Saturday, May 12. Approximately 300 kids and their parents visited the Texas Bicycle Coalition Safe Routes to School booth. There, they received information on the importance of wearing a helmet while bicycling, the […]

“Stage Two” of the large TxDOT Texas Safe Routes to School infrastructure project in Lubbock is scheduled for completion during the third week of November. This portion of the nearly $300,000 project includes new sidewalks and the repair and replacement of old, broken sidewalks and driveways in what is known as the Tech Terrace Neighborhood. […]

Durwood Mayfield and Sherman Phillips attended the October meeting of the Lubbock Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (LMPO) Transportation Advisory Committee. Also in attendance were representatives from Texas Department of Transportation, the City of Wolfforth, the City of Lubbock, Lubbock County Commissioners, Lubbock CitiBus, representative from Texas Tech University, Texas Department of Public Safety, and Mr. Kirk […]

Thursday, April 27, dawned cool and brisk in Lubbock, the temperature dipping to near 40. Not the best of conditions for the inaugural Texas Bike & Walk to School Day; however, Coalition staffers Durwood Mayfield and Sherman Phillips still optimistically approached Bowie Elementary to find children already arriving on their bikes. They were met at […]

Outreach Coordinators Durwood Mayfield and Sherman Phillips met with members of the Dunbar-Manhattan Neighborhood Association of Lubbock the evening of February 23. The previous March, Durwood met with the President, Ms. Billie Russell, and informed her that he would be working with the BikeTexas Safe Routes to School Program. She was interested in learning more […]

Outreach Coordinator Sherman Phillips presented an overview of BikeTexas Safe Routes to School to the general meeting of the Murfee Elementary School PTA Thursday evening, February 16. The presentation was well-received by the audience of approximately 150 attendees. Sherman spoke of the safety and education programs affiliated with the Coalition’s education fund and the five […]

Bowie Elementary PTA President Sarah Lancaster and First Vice President Karla Mathis invited Durwood Mayfield, Texas Bicycle Coalition local outreach coordinator, to speak about the BikeTexas Safe Routes to School program at the PTA’s general membership meeting Thursday, February 16. Anita Rangel, principal of Bowie Elementary; Lubbock Mayor Pro-tem Tom Martin; City Councilman Jim Gilbreath; […]

Sherman Phillips and Durwood Mayfield met with the Lubbock Council of PTA Presidents on Thursday, February 16. Their goal for inclusion on the agenda was to reach as many PTAs and presidents as possible and to inform the Lubbock school administration about the upcoming Bike & Walk to School Day on April 27. Lubbock’s Superintendent […]

Sherman Phillips and Durwood Mayfield met with David Pierce, principal of the Arnett Elementary School. Mr. Pierce was very excited that his school had been chosen as one of our target schools for the BikeTexas Safe Routes to School Program. The location of this school lends to it’s uniqueness in that it is a true […]