Coming soon. Ish.
Five years after the Dallas City Council adopted a new bike plan, it’s not exactly pedal to the metal at City Hall. Quite the opposite.
In fact, as far as some members of the Park and Recreation Board are concerned, Dallas is heading backwards when it comes to the implementation of the plan, which calls for 840 miles of on-street bike facilities by the time it reaches the finish line.
According to a briefing given to the board Thursday morning, there are just 49.6 miles on the ground — 35.5 miles of which are shared lanes, as noted by the thermoplastic icons in the middle of those lanes cyclists must share with vehicles. Those are fine in residential areas, said some park board members, but hardly sufficient in busy parts of the city — like, say, downtown, where 3-year-old markers are fading.
“It’s disingenuous to call paint any kind of bike lane,” said park board member Paul Sims. Said the East Dallas representative, an avid cyclist, the markers on Main Street are “silly.”
Larry Jones, Northwest Dallas’ park board member and another bike-rider, said that as far as he’s concerned, the so-called sharrows “make you more of a target.” … [visit site to read more]
Reposted via City Hall Blog
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