Update: We’re on! The chance of rain dropped to 10% so we’ll see you all at City Hall.
Update: If you are on the North side of town and would like to ride with a group to City Hall, DORBA and TeamDART will be leaving from Mockingbird Station at 7:30AM and riding up the Katy trail, through the AAC and winding towards city hall.
If you are leaving from the Southern sector, a group will be meeting at 7:30AM in the Bishop Arts District, in front of Eno’s, where Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters will provide free coffee. From there, the group will meet up with the council members leaving Union Station.
October 7th, the City of Dallas Promotes Dallas Bikes to City Hall. Arriving at 8:30AM and Unveiling of Complete Streets Initiatives
The city of Dallas, in cooperation with DART, the City Parks Department, and Bike Friendly Oak Cliff invites all to bicycle to City Hall to promote greater bicycle awareness on the morning of October 7th, 2009. Several Council Members have signed on to ride starting at Union Station to City Hall on bicycles that we’ll provide, but all others are encouraged to ride from home to City Hall Plaza. We’ll arrive at the Plaza at 8:30AM, and Council Members will unveil upcoming projects that embrace future citywide Complete Streets initiatives, and introduce the city’s new bicycle coordinator, Max Kalhammer.
We also have a facebook group page for the event here that you can sign up for.
On October 8th, the Oak Cliff Transit Authority and the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group Present “Contested Streets” at the Texas Theatre
On October 8th, at 7:30PM, Council Member Angela Hunt will host the evening and discuss infrastructure developments and initiatives noted from recent trips to Portland, Vancouver, and Copenhagen at the historic Texas Theatre. Afterward, the documentary Contested Streets, will be featured, which profiles New York’s streetscape history, and its efforts to become more pedestrian friendly. Large cities around the world are showcased along with some of the most renowned urban planners.
If you come at 7PM, the North Texas Chapter of the Congress for New Urbanism will be holding a discussion in the lobby of the theatre. Should be fun!
Get Tickets today at Brownpapertickets.com: 
View a clip from the film here:
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Dallas Tops Bicycle Magazine's Worst Cities for Cycling
Answers to most common talking points by those opposed to bicycle infrastructure
“There are times I ride in Austin, and I’m afraid of cars...Imagine what the beginner cyclist must feel like?”
- Lance Armstrong
The success of “complete streets” advocacy in cities such as San Francisco, Portland, New York, and Chicago has clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of infrastructural enhancement.
-Paul Dorn, League Cycling Instructor (#1237)
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) Recommends cities adopt bicycle lanes to curb obesity trends
Portland Metro: 174 Miles of On-street bikelanes, 8% bicycle ridership, 0 Fatalities in 2008
Dallas Metro: 0 Miles of On-Street bike lanes, .2% bicycle ridership, 6 Fatalities in 2008
"Our story is build it and they will come. We’ve built it and we now are approaching 6-8% mode split."
- Roger Geller, Bike Coordinator for Portland
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September 28, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I am so there. I’ll try to spread the word, is there a flyer I can print out and pass along to friends?
Facebooked for sure!
September 30, 2009 at 9:11 am
In ! Glad to see this is happening.
September 30, 2009 at 10:03 am
I love the video. However, everything is shown during comfortable, warm weather. What happens during heavy rain, snow and ice and even just really cold weather to the bicycles? What about all the people who have disabilities that do not allow them to walk long distances or bicycle? Just wondering…
September 30, 2009 at 11:15 am
Weather doesn’t seem to stop them:
September 30, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Wednesday Morning, October 7th, 2009
I will get up and ride my hybrid (bicycle) to City Hall. I’ve been using the bicycle + DART train combo to travel from White Rock Lake to my part-time job in a Parkland Clinic West of the West End for almost 3 years now. Burn fat, reduce your carbon footprint, treat snoring/obstructive sleep apnea, advocate for your planet… all at once! I hope everyone who CAN, will DO THIS!! The oil companies have had us all by the balls for so, SO long… pulled off “9/11″ without a flaw… have us in bogus wars, occupying foreign countries, killing millions of innocents, bankrupting our nation… it’s so rotton-to-the-core and yet, here we go: saddle up your bicycle and ride! Ride for your health! Ride for your country! Ride for your PLANET!! Ride in SOLIDARITY!
September 30, 2009 at 5:56 pm
This is a great idea and will give badly needed visibility to the abysmal state of bike routes in Dallas (with the notable exception of White Rock Lake and Creek). I’d love to ride down and participate, but can’t think of a route downtown that is not tantamount to a suicide attempt. Can any experienced commuters recommend a safe route? Thanks.
September 30, 2009 at 8:51 pm
NDR: Starting from where?
October 1, 2009 at 6:42 am
Looking for a safe bicycling route to city hall from the North Dallas Galleria area. Anybody know a safe way to get there?
October 1, 2009 at 10:24 am
I’m not very familiar with the streets downtown so my tactic would be to avoid them where possible. Here are two suggestions:
Using DART or using the Katy Trail.
I haven’t ridden either route entirely so take these suggestions with a grain of salt.
October 4, 2009 at 11:02 pm
i’m diggin the fest, guys and gals….looking forward to meeting more of you soon…
October 5, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I’d love to bike to City Hall on the 7th. Any good routes from Illinois to City Hall?
October 6, 2009 at 7:26 am
@ NDR. I have ridden Preston to Downtown often when I lived in Addison. A blinkie and a bright shirt wouldn’t hurt.
October 6, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Illinois Ave? Just take Zang Blvd. or Beckley Ave. to Zang and then down the hill and across the river.
From North Dallas, just take your bike on a train or bus to downtown then ride your bike.
October 6, 2009 at 9:58 pm
North Dallas Roadie. From Galleria, go West toward Welch, then South, then East on Harvest Hill, then South on Montfort/Nuestra. Cross Forest at either Nuestra or Jamestown, then go East on Northaven. Take Northaven East to St. Michaels/Boedeker, and take that down to the Katy.
Most of this can be done via Pegasus Routes….
October 10, 2009 at 2:11 pm
For Pingback: late, I know, but for future reference, there are bike racks on the west, east & south sides of City Hall.