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Neo Jang April 8, 2025

Know Your Rights: A Webinar on Cycling Safety & Advocacy, hosted by BikeLaw/BikeHouston

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 06:30 PM (Central Time)
Registration link: https://qrfy.io/BmUDrVDARB

Adrian at Aggieland Cycling just shared this invitation from Charlie and Joe in Houston. As we approach the celebration of May as National Bike month, this would certainly be valuable insights for everyone. Thanks and see y’all there!

Dear Friends at Aggieland Cycling,
We’re excited to invite you and your customers to a free upcoming webinar hosted by Bike Law. We’ll break down the laws that apply to people riding bikes in Texas, share stories from actual bike cases across Texas, and talk about how to best avoid crashes (for example, buying the brightest lights that you can afford from your local bike retailer).
We’ve enclosed a flyer with all the details-we’d love it if you could post it in your shop or share it with your community. Thank you for being a part of making Texas a safer place to ride!
Best Regards,
Charlie Thomas

Filed Under: Advocacy, Bryan/College Station, Safety, Uncategorized Tagged With: Advocacy, community, safety

Neo Jang November 28, 2023

Where the Bicycle Racks Are

In February 2023, Amsterdam opened a new underwater bicycle parking facility. Image Credit (Bicycle Dutch)

If we knew the places we plan to visit have reasonably secure and convenient bike racks, then the decision to pedal there would be an easy one. On the contrary, if there’s no good place to park the bike, we would choose (a) a different equivalent service with a better bike parking, or (b) drive a car if the said service had no substitute. Below is a list of different local maps for Bryan/College Station area, that could tell us this bit of useful information.

  • Laurel’s BCS Bike Map (https://www.google.com/maps/)
  • City of College Station (https://cstx.maps.arcgis.com)
  • City of Bryan (https://maps.bryantx.gov/bike/)
  • TAMU Bike Parking Map (https://transport.tamu.edu/parkingmap/bike/)

Laurel’s BCS Bike Map

Our friend, Laurel, took it upon herself the immense task of cataloging the bicycle racks across twin cities over the past year. She took such care as to even include the photos, to show what these racks look like in real life, along with the time of last confirmation. Shown below is the resulting interactive map.

  • Different layers can be toggled on/off, such as Bike Lanes, Bike Routes, Multi-Use Paths, and Bike Parking.
  • Clicking on Bike Parking spots shows more detailed info, including photos on many, as well as last confirmed date.
  • If starred, this map will be available to view on your Google Maps, desktop or mobile. Follow this instruction: View your My Maps using Google Maps (support.google.com)

A static map with infrequent updates would be less helpful than a crowd-sourced one that has many eyes and hands on continuously. Laurel’s map invites users to add missing or update outdated information, by submitting this form. (https://forms.gle/yeYJQgzHhBkz9Zkd9)

City of College Station – Bike Map

City of College Station offers a similar Bicycle Map, which includes bike rack locations throughout the city, as well as bike lanes & bike routes.

Image Credit: City of College Station (https://cstx.maps.arcgis.com)

Credit must be given to the city of College Station that dataset exported from their source gave a rich starting point for Laurel to build on. Especially the data for “Proposed, Planned & Funded” gives us a hopeful glimpse of better connected network.

City of Bryan – Bicycle Routes

City of Bryan also offers the map of Bicycle Routes. It serves the titled purpose, and does not yet include locations of bicycle racks.

Image Credit: City of Bryan (https://maps.bryantx.gov/bike/)

Please leave comment below if Bryan does have more relevant data available. The motivation behind Laurel’s map was to have a consolidated map that would cover both cities and the campus, for a seamless travel across these articifial boundaries.

Texas A&M University – Bike Map

Speaking of the campus, TAMU Bike Parking Map appears inactive at the time of this writing. Perhaps it used to work at some point in the past, and is no longer maintained or offered.

Image Credit: Texas A&M University (https://transport.tamu.edu/parkingmap/bike/)

Subjectively speaking, cycling on-campus is a comparatively more relaxed experience compared to off-campus. With few exceptions, almost all buildings have up-to-date, conveniently-located, and well-utilized bicycle parking. As the Sustainable Transportation team work diligently to ensure this quality service, I would encourage them should give themselves more credit by making this achievement readily visible.

What do you think about these maps? How can they be made more useful?

Filed Under: Advocacy, Bryan/College Station, Commuting, Safety Tagged With: Advocacy, Bryan, College Station, Cycling, Social, TAMU

Don Gilman October 27, 2020

College Station “Bicycle Friendly” – Be Heard!

The City of College Station recently applied for a Bicycle Friendly Community designation from the League of American Bicyclists. The application review process is now underway and the League is seeking your input to gain a better understanding of local bicyclists’ experiences in our community.

Whether you bike every day or only occasionally, we encourage you to take a few minutes to fill out this survey (link below) and please share it with your friends and neighbors.  The survey will remain open through Sunday, November 15th. Your input will also provide feedback to the City about how we can improve conditions for bicyclists. Award results for the Bicycle Friendly Community designation will be announced in December 2020.

Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BFC_Fall20

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Filed Under: Advocacy, Bryan/College Station, Government Engagement, Social Ride, Survey Tagged With: Bicycle Friendly, College Station, Survey

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