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Well the good news is that a connection to the Santa Fe Trail through downtown to Katy Trail is a top priority for the Dallas Bike Plan... Bad news is the City has to now find the money to do it.
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Here is a great new idea to share bikes around town at a much lower cost then most other systems. it uses your smart phone to locate and rent the bike. Take a look would be a great addition to Dallas. http://www.gizmag.com/sobi-bicycle-sharing-system/19153/ Continue reading ...
Runners, bikers and walkers are all still discovering the Santa Fe Trail. Take a look at what an avid runner from D Magazine has to say about the Santa Fe Trail.
The Friends group has raised money for a master plan for the trail that will help set the agenda for future improvements.... benches, water, trees and signs.
With new bike trails opening all over Dallas the Santa Fe Trail will become a vital link between great destinations in downtown and East Dallas/Lakewood. Continue reading ...
The inaugural Dallas Cycle Sunday will take place on June 26th. This first-time event will feature a ride that will begin with a “meet-up” downtown at Main Street Garden Park at 10:00AM (see map). At 10:30AM all riders will do a loop through Downtown and Deep Ellum, and arrive at the Dallas Complete Streets Kickoff/Better Block on Ross Avenue at approximately 11AM. With enough willing participants, Cycle Sunday will continue on to the White Rock Lake Centennial Celebration. This is a chan... Continue reading ...
White Rock Creek Trail... That trail that connect White Rock DART Station and Lake with the new Cotton Wood Trail and goes all the way to LBJ Freeway. The trail is a little more narrow then the newer trails but is a great ride along the creek bottom and with a group to help improve it could be a great destination in itself. They have a meeting coming up in Lake Highlands on Feb 10th to get organized. To learn more go to their website. whiterocktrail.org Continue reading ...
Several folks from the Friends of the Santa Fe Trail joined a meeting since the new year on the effort to make our trails more Friendly. The effort will include sign standards for the trail as well as an ad campaign. The public part of the campaign should start soon. Continue reading ...
January 20th we get to find out the final take on the Dallas Bike Plan. For more informaiton just click the logo below.
The 2011 Dallas Bike Plan final public meeting is set for January 20, 2011 at Dallas City Hall Flag Room (6E North) from 5 to 8 pm, with a presentation at 5:30 pm in the Council Chamber. At this January meeting the revised network recommendation maps and a full draft of the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan will be available for review. We look forward to seeing you there!
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As you probably already know Dallas is about to update our bike plan. We have hired a top ranked national consultant to help us come up with this new plan. Before summer started they had the first public meeting then just a couple of weeks ago they had another meeting. The draft plan is now up on the website for all of us to review. So take a moment and to look at what they have put together. We will probably be living with this plan for the next 10+ years.
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Many of you probably know that the Santa Fe Trail was first called the East Dallas Veloway. As it turns out the East Dallas Veloway is actually much bigger it is the name given to an entire East Dallas Corridor that stretches through the heart of Lakewood and all the way up past the Home Depot on Skillman and meets up with the White Rock Creek Trail near Central Expressway. I went to a meeting just last night to hear the latest news on all this. The good news is that the entire route is mos... Continue reading ...
If you ride up the Whiterock Creek Trail just past the DART bridge that goes to Plano you see a little gravel road to the North. A few weeks ago I saw that they put the bridge in place at the Royal DART Station for the Cottonwood trail and took a chance that I would be able to get across. As you will see in the attached photos they are stll working on the foundation of the trail and have not started laying the concreet yet. Cottonwood Creek is actually a really nice crek with a whiterock bott... Continue reading ...
Currently the Katy Trail starts at the American Airlines Center and ends suddenly just shy of the SMU Campus near the old bread plant that SMU just announced development plans for. But for many years the City has had a plan to extend the trail all the way up to the Whiterock DART Station. Well construction started recently on that new leg of the Katy Trail. It will follow the DART right of way for mostly from Mockingbird Station East.
The part conspicuously missing from the plans is the ... Continue reading ...
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