Google adds new Bike Route beta to Google Maps
Google has taken the wraps off a new beta feature on Google Maps: bike route support. The feature was turned on as the National Bike Summit in Washington, D. C. got underway this week. Google has added the bike route system to the maps of 150 cities thus far, and Fort Worth is one of [...]
Read more »Mayor Moncrief’s State of the City Address: Car-Centric Planning a Mistake
Edit: Added the full transcript of the Mayor’s discussion related to this topic.
Mayor Moncrief has given his State of the City address, and one of the items he discussed was the city’s transportation and planning. The mayor stated in no uncertain terms that Fort Worth is facing severe transportation challenges, that they stem from too [...]
Photos from the Fort Worth South Banquet
Last night, at the beautiful Masonic Temple, Fort Worth South, Inc. held its latest annual banquet celebrating the ongoing continued success of the Near Southside’s revitalization. Fort Worth South president Paul Paine gave a stirring presentation on the accomplishments in the Near Southside thus far, and several upcoming projects and developments.
In the photos above, you [...]
Free Movie Tonight at Urban Green Build – “Blueprint America: Road to the Future”
Urban Green Build’s free urbanism & sustainability movie series returns tonight after a snow delay last week. Up for viewing is PBS’s Blueprint America: Road to the Future.
Blueprint America: Road to the Future, an original documentary part of a PBS multi-platform series on the country’s aging and changing infrastructure, goes to three very different American cities [...]
City Council unanimously approves Bike Fort Worth plan – plus photos from Bike Friendly Fort Worth ride
Last night was a history-making night for Fort Worth’s transformation into a more livable, sustainable city.
At last night’s Fort Worth City Council meeting, a mass of bicyclists turned out in support of the Bike Fort Worth plan, which the council would be voting on adopting and implementing. Groups from the newly formed Bike Friendly Fort [...]
A Look at Bike Fort Worth
Bike Fort Worth, the ambitious new bicycle transportation plan, will be voted for adoption tomorrow at the City Council meeting. Bike Fort Worth aims to create a Fort Worth that is massively more bike-friendly than at present, and thereby increase the number of bicycle users in the city.
Bike Fort Worth’s primary goals are:
Increasing bicycling in [...]
Read more »Bike Friendly Fort Worth Ride to City Hall
As we’ve noted before, this Tuesday the City Council will vote whether to adopt the ambitious Bike Fort Worth plan for creating a real on-and-off-street bicycle transportation network throughout the city of Fort Worth.
Of late, bike efforts in Dallas have been aided by the actions of a group of bike & urbanism advocates from Oak [...]
West 7th and the Importance of Place
The always-interesting Dallas urbanism blog Car Free in Big D did a story looking out west at one of our own urban infill areas, the 7th Street corridor, and has some great insight into what makes some of these developments more successful in creating a meaningful urban space than others. In short, the West 7th [...]
Read more »Visuals of New South Main and Poly/TWU Streetscapes
Following up on yesterday’s post about the grants awarded to the South Main and Poly/TWU streetscape projects, we now have some before & after images to share, thanks to our friends at local planning & development firm TownSite.
Each pair of images shows a streetscape before & after the project. For South Main, we’re looking towards Downtown, [...]
South Main, Poly/TWU Slated for Streetscape Improvements
We have just heard some fantastic news for fans of more pedestrian-friendly, calm and attractive urban streetscapes: the North Central Texas Council of Governments has slated funding for two notable streetscape improvement projects in urban Fort Worth.
First, the South Main urban village, located in the Near Southside just outside Downtown, looks to be getting $3,000,000 [...]
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