Comments on: NCTCOG Oct 21, 2009 recap https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/nctcog-oct-21-2009-recap/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: City Council to Request $2 million in Bike/Ped Funds Tonight « Bike Denton https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/nctcog-oct-21-2009-recap/#comment-164 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:13:36 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=987#comment-164 […] 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment As we previously mentioned on Oct 21, TXDOT has about $70 million dollars to give out as part of their State Transportation Enhancement […]

]]> By: Austin Bike Infrastructure Moves Forward « Bike Denton https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/nctcog-oct-21-2009-recap/#comment-161 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:09:31 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=987#comment-161 […] 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment So around DFW, many cities are talking about accommodating bicycles and pedestrians.  A few DFW cities are just starting to publish […]

]]> By: How to Build a Bike Friendly City Part 2 « Bike Friendly Oak Cliff https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/nctcog-oct-21-2009-recap/#comment-149 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:29:58 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=987#comment-149 […] BikeDenton attended the most recent NCTCOG Bike and Pedestrian advisory committee meeting and heard a suburban planner from Richardson admit that post-WWII planning had been negligent of non-car transit, and that overwhelming support for bicycle specific infrastructure by neighborhood associations had begun in his area. We also went to the archives to pull a Car Free in Big D entry spotlighting an Austrian city engineer in an article titled “A Traffic Engineer Whose Mother Actually Loves Him”, who is quoted “I discovered that traditional traffic planning is merely based on assumptions. For a long time there was no consideration for the consequences for the society or the environment. Nobody cared about noise or pollution, about fatalities, about the economy being altered or unemployment being created.” There’s definitely a change in mindset among the new set of planners and engineers coming out of schools today. It’s almost as if they’ve finally taken heed of Jane Jacobs warnings in the classic Death and Life of Great American Cities. Annecdotally speaking, we even note a split inside of many city offices among one generation of planners to the next. One will state “I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and these new ideas won’t work here”, while the others are stating, “what we did 30 years ago IS the problem.” Only time will tell on what our city will look like in the coming decade, but it is heartening to see traditional planning ideas look beyond the idea of simply getting people in and out of places as fast as possible without regard to effects on livability. […]

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