Howard Draper
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Arlington, TX, the largest US city without public transit, narrowly approved a weakened Bike Plan this week after outraged opposition fought the plan with a litany of criticism.
Read more »We’ve mentioned Chicago’s plan to build cycletracks, and now we see they’re going to unveil the pilot cycletrack in one week.
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Bihar is the least literate state in India, with women’s literacy as low as 33 percent. Now the government says a bicycle-reward program is turning that number around.
Read more »As Texas legislators prepare to cut $4 billion from education, they also plan to spend $4.4 billion on a 28 mile expansion of Interstate 35E between Dallas and Denton.
Read more »I’m convinced that this combination of trains + bikes is magical. Magic that disappears with the tether of an automobile.
Read more »If you can be declared a bike-friendly city, why not a walk-friendly city? Well, now you can, thanks to funding by the DOT and Fedex.
Read more »Municipal engineers design the roads in your city.
Read more »A decade ago, looking for signs of bike friendly improvements in Texas was like looking for life on Mars. Gas was cheap, sprawl was kicking into overdrive, and local and state governments committed funding towards every pie-in-the-sky, auto-centric transportation project.
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