Outdoor Recreation

Riders Still Waiting on Refunds from Phantom Central Expressway Bike Ride

When a planned Downtown Dallas-to-McKinney bike tour was abruptly cancelled last month -- this the one that would shut down 30 miles of Central Expressway -- riders who had paid their registration for the race were promised a prompt and full refund, assuming they didn't want to take a free pass to a ... More >>

A Tamer, More Tethered Adventure

If You're Into Biking, Just Go Ahead and Move to Fort Worth

Dallas and Fort Worth are similar. They're both in Texas, both have oversized conceptions of themselves, and both came of age in the automobile era. The cities also developed similar bike plans, involving miles of designated bike lanes, at about the same time. And that's where, transit-wise at least ... More >>

Wet and Wild

Basketball With a Latin Beat

A Week After They Found Pig Blood in the Trinity, Still So Very Many Questions

The back and forth between the city and Columbia Packing Pant on the January 19 river-of-pig-blood incident is fascinating on a bunch of levels. If nothing else, it would seem to raise urgent questions about the way industrial facilities all over Dallas pump waste into the city's sanitary sewer syst ... More >>

If City Can't Pay for Bike Lanes on Jefferson Viaduct, BFOC Will Try to Find the Money

Bike Friendly Oak CliffClick to enlarge Jason Roberts's look at the problems cyclists face when trying to ride the Jefferson Viaduct.​Jason Roberts broke the news yesterday: Israel "Dallas" Torres, 32 years old and an experienced cyclist, was hit by a car Saturday afternoon while riding on the Jef ... More >>

Here's a New Year's Resolution For City Hall: Stop Trying to Screw With the Trinity River

​Over the holiday weekend I spent a few very enjoyable hours on the Trinity River with Trinity Rivers Expeditions outfitter and canoe guide Charles Allen. We paddled from Trinity River Mountain Creek Preserve near the intersection of Walton Walker and IH-30 in Irving to the Sylvan Avenue Bridge i ... More >>

Hunt's "At a Loss to Understand" Why City's Making It So Difficult to Roll Out Bike Plan

Via.​Council member Angela Hunt popped into the comments yesterday to express and explain her frustration with implementation of the city's new Bike Plan, unanimously okee-doked by the city council in June. Because, as we've been discussing since Saturday morning, the plan isn't really a plan -- m ... More >>

Are They Angels or Grinches at Dallas City Hall? Depends Which Project You're Discussing.

​Sometimes I think city staff may be demon-possessed. I'm sorry, I know it's a very weird thing to say. But I can't come up with another explanation. One day they're so bouncy and positive and totally can-do. The next day they've been taken over by the negativity goblin. I attended a city council ... More >>

Griggs and Hunt: Why Weren't We Told Bike Plan Would Be Hard, Expensive to Carry Out?

Dallas' bike lanes will be painted in gold. OK, maybe not, but they could be quite expensive.​Turns out, the city's new bike plan, unanimously approved by council in June, is far more complex than drawing lines along the street in patterns deemed good ideas by city consultants. Before we get i ... More >>

How Will Dallas Roll Out New Bike Plan? Just Look at the Plan For Fort Worth Avenue.

Click to enlarge for a better look at a proposed plan to redo Fort Worth Ave.​By 2021 the city of Dallas hopes to have 1,296 miles of here-to-there dedicated to cyclists, 456 of which would be off-road -- trails, let's say. Which leaves the rest, 840 miles, spread up and down the cracked concrete, ... More >>

Southpaw's Brings Its Oddly Unfried Food to Uptown

Southpaw's Grill​Reza Anavarian, originally from Azerbaijan, flies to Georgia this weekend for an ESI Ironman Competition, which includes a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile jog through beautiful downtown Augusta. In addition to conditioning for that insanity, he's also training a ... More >>

Doggone Fun

Council Opts Not to Study Trinity Whitewater Feature. Now, It's a Do-It-Yourself Project.

Conceptual rendering, meet The Real Thing​For now, at least, you can forget about the city spending an additional five figures to study the Dallas Wave, which Schutze calls in this week's paper version of Unfair Park "the unbelievably screwed-up man-made kayaking rapids" in the Trinity River. No d ... More >>

Dallas Has Some Decent Delis, But We Need Some Help With Our Bread

Jimmy's Italian Stallion. Not a hoagie​Oh Dallas. I'm about ready to admit defeat. In a story I did calling for hoagie suggestions to satisfy my East Coast carpetbagging cravings, many chimed in citing Jimmy's, The Great Outdoors, Biladelphia, Great American Hero and more. I asked for shredded ... More >>

The Standing Wave on the Trinity River Stands Ready to Wash Away More of Your Dough

​Somewhere in the saga of the Dallas Wave, formerly known as the Standing Wave, there is sanity. Things happen for a reason. I take this as an article of faith, but my faith is sorely tested by the wave. The standing wave is a manmade rapids in the Trinity River downriver from downtown that t ... More >>

Trinity River Project's Standing Wave: Great, Now City Hall's Trying to Kill Us

​The city of Dallas sent out a lovely little notice earlier this week inviting people of the canoe paddling ilk -- which would be me -- to attend the opening of the Dallas Trinity Paddling Trail, a canoe "path" on the Trinity River, established as part of a statewide system of canoe trails. T ... More >>

Scratch That May 7 Dedication Off To-Do List, As Dallas Wave Is Closed Till Further Notice

Photo by Harry Wilonsky​Below, unhappy Friend of Unfair Park Ben notes in the comments that the Dallas Wave (formerly known as the Standing Wave) is off-limits -- meaning, you can wave adios to that May 7 dedication ceremony that's been on the books since last fall. Willis Winters, second-in-comma ... More >>

I Want to Ride My Bicycle, or: On Days Like Today, It Pays to Be Car-Free in Big D

Andrea GrimesThe dog days of winter: the scene in Deep Ellum this morning​To the Dodge Ram driver who was futilely spinning his wheels on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway exit ramp this morning; the Lexus driver who locked her brakes and whirled her car across Maple Avenue; and the Ford 150 driver who ... More >>

Angela Hunt Insists Widening Chávez Will Create "A Cohesive Entry Into Downtown"

​Speaking of Angela Hunt ...The maybe-mayoral candidate who presently reps that stretch of downtown due to be widened says that, yes, she's all for it. She was back in January 2009, you may recall, when she asked for a time-out so she could confer with DowntownDallas president and CEO John Crawfor ... More >>

In Advance of Third Dallas Bike Plan Meeting in Three Weeks, a Car-Free Challenge Issued

Survey says: Why Dallas doesn't pedal, from the Dallas Bike Plan survey​The previous Dallas Bike Plan public hearings have been jam-packed. No reason, then, to think it'll be any different on January 20, when the city hosts another in the Dallas City Hall Flag Room. No times have yet been set; so ... More >>

Venturing Out for a Bibimbap Bender
In Koreatown

Kristy YangTree House's bibimbap, a perfect blend of textures and flavors​I found myself on a bibimbap bender last week after my friend Sam had recommended two of his favorite restaurants in Koreatown. In the spirit of holiday overindulgence, I felt justified in visiting both places in the sam ... More >>

Meow for a Musical

Nova: Pop a Wheelie Over This Bike-Friendly Oak Cliff Eatery.

Almost-Super Nova

Mixed Signals: Dallas Drops Ticket Against Bike Helmet Law Opponent, Then Deals Another for Three-Month-Old Complaint

​Paul Woodfield doesn't remember what he was doing on April 8 -- but to help jog his memory, the city of Dallas sent a deputy city marshal to his door yesterday with a subpoena. According to the complaint he was handed, Woodfield was riding his bike around White Rock Lake that day, and he was ... More >>

Up With People

On the Quiet Roads Around White Rock Lake, Another Silent Ride for Cycling Casualties

Patrick MichelsChris Moreno, a hit-and-run victim last summer, joined the Ride of Silence around White Rock Lake Wednesday night.​As it has each year since 2003, Dallas's bike community gathered last night for the Ride of Silence around White Rock Lake, honoring the many cyclists who've been kille ... More >>

Clearly, You All Have Thoughts About Cycling in Dallas. City Hall Really Wants You To Share.

​So, speaking -- or shouting -- of bicycling in Dallas ...A couple of weeks back I mentioned that on May 27, the city and the North Central Texas Council of Governments are holding a 2011 Dallas Bike Plan Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. at Dallas City Hall, during which reps from Toole Design Group wi ... More >>

Green Scene

A Lance Armstrong Gateway in the OC?

Courtesy Bike Friendly Oak CliffClick to expand the vision for Bishop Avenue with bike-only lanes between Methodist and Bishop Arts​Another day, another bike plan for Oak Cliff. But Jason Roberts, founder of Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, says the Seventh Street proposal and another for Bishop Avenue ar ... More >>

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