1. Magnolia Grove Civic Club
2018

2. Topics The Houston Bike Plan Bikeway Design Toolbox
The Build 50 Challenge
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3. Let’s Get to Know Each Other!
Get to know each other. Just name and what area do you live.

4. 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 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 3 Types of Bikeway Off-street trail or sidepath Standard:
10 feet wide or more

12. 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

13. 3 Types of Bikeway 3. Shared On-street
Only appropriate on roads that have a posted speed limit of 30mph or less

14. Campaign developed by BikeHouston to challenge the city, county, and area implementers to build 50 miles of high comfort bikeway by May 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.

15. Community Engagement Led by the City of Houston Planning Department
Focus on Complete Communities
Map of Proposed Routes: challenge-interactive-map/

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

18. Inge Ford - Education Director, BikeHouston
Questions?
Inge Ford - Education Director, BikeHouston
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19. THANK YOU!
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