Magnolia Grove Civic Club 2018

Topics The Houston Bike Plan Bikeway Design Toolbox The Build 50 Challenge Replaces slide

Let’s Get to Know Each Other! Get to know each other. Just name and what area do you live.

Nonprofit Bicycle Advocacy Organization BikeHouston Nonprofit Bicycle Advocacy Organization Mission: Create safe bikeways to improve the quality of life for all Houstonians. Introduce BikeHouston: We were originally founded as an all volunteer organization in 1991. In 2014, with a grant from the Houston Endowment, BikeHouston became a professionally staffed organization with 6 staff members. Today we represent over 1.5 million bike owners in Houston.

BikeHouston at Work Advocacy & Education In March 2017, BikeHouston spearheaded the successful effort to develop and pass Houston’s first comprehensive Bike Plan in more than 20 years Why is it important? The Bike Plan provides infrastructure recommendations and a policy roadmap to make Houston a “gold level” bicycle-friendly city by 2025 The Plan represents recognition from the city council that bike infrastructure is important. The Plan is a commitment by the city to take action. And a tool for us to hold the city accountable to the plan. So let’s take a look at where we are and where we’d like to be So let’s take a look a where we are now, and where we hope to be in 2025

Starting Point Existing Bike Network 259 miles of bikeways This is our starting point, currently the city has around 260 miles bikeway or an inventory of where we are in regards to bikeways

Long Term Vision by 2025 This is where we’d like our city to be by 2025 This is an aggressive plan, and it won’t happen without community support.

Magnolia Grove and the Bike Plan Existing Conditions Existing High Comfort Bikeways Magnolia Grove Civic Club Let’s take a closer look at the northside neighborhood Observations: Centrally situated between Buffalo and White Oak Bayous

Magnolia Grove and the Bike Plan Long-term Vision Existing High Comfort Bikeways Magnolia Grove Civic Club Long-term Vision Short-term Opportunities Reported Bicycle Crashes (2013-Present) Walk through to orient everyone, go through each of the legend items to make sure everyone understands the map

Connectivity proposal for Magnolia Grove by SN 22 Heights to IH10 to UPRR w/proposed bike/ped bridge Washington Avenue Corridor w/proposed traffic control device Floyd to Memorial Drive to Bayou Greenway Trails w/proposed traffic control device and connection to existing pedestrian bridges Link to Neighborhood Greenway’s Washington Avenue Coalition/Memorial Park Superneighborhood 22 (SN22) file:///C:/Users/iamfo/Downloads/SN%2022%20Proposal%20for%20Bikeway%20Connectivity%20thru%20Magnolia%20Grove%20Community.pdf

3 Types of Bikeway Off-street trail or sidepath Standard: 10 feet wide or more

3 Types of Bikeway 2. Dedicated in-street ROW Definitions: a. Low Comfort Definitions: ROW- Right of way (available space in roadway) High comfort bikeway (generally)- at least 5’wide with a 3’ buffer (Chapter 17, Houston Design Manual) b. High Comfort

3 Types of Bikeway 3. Shared On-street Only appropriate on roads that have a posted speed limit of 30mph or less

Campaign developed by BikeHouston to challenge the city, county, and area implementers to build 50 miles of high comfort bikeway by May 2019. Both Mayor Sylvester Turner and Commissioner Ellis agreed to the challenge and Commissioner ellis allocated 10 million dollars to implement the vision. Fun fact, this 10 million expires in May 2019.

Community Engagement Led by the City of Houston Planning Department Focus on Complete Communities Map of Proposed Routes: https://bikehouston.org/2018/08/02/the-build-50- challenge-interactive-map/

Education and Outreach Tactical urbanism Ambassador Training Learn to Ride Enforcement Jorge Community & Equity Engineering

Inge Ford - Education Director, BikeHouston Questions? Inge Ford - Education Director, BikeHouston iford@bikehouston.org Add a nice photo

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