Comments on: The Two-Wheeling Future of Fort Worth http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/15/the-two-wheeling-future-of-fort-worth/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Felix Landry http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/15/the-two-wheeling-future-of-fort-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-9351 Felix Landry Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:35:26 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2414#comment-9351 I am an Urban Planning grad student at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas (between Houston and Dallas). I ride almost everywhere. Yes its extremely hot in the summer, but it also get pretty cold in the winter. Anywhere you go there is gong to be some excuse not to bike: weather, terrain, crime rates, distance, etc. I think terrain and crime rates are much tougher issues to deal with than weather. I don't really have to dress up for work yet, but when I do I plan on getting up a little earlier to avoid the heat. After work, who cares I going home sweat it up. I employ some odor fighting practices and ignore the sweat, which is saying quite a bit because I can really sweat. The biggest obstacles in College Station are the six lane racetrack (Texas Ave) dividing the city in half and some childish mentalities still held by some "Texas Men" about cyclists on the roads. I think biking is worth it. I'll bike despite the elements. Felix I am an Urban Planning grad student at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas (between Houston and Dallas). I ride almost everywhere. Yes its extremely hot in the summer, but it also get pretty cold in the winter. Anywhere you go there is gong to be some excuse not to bike: weather, terrain, crime rates, distance, etc. I think terrain and crime rates are much tougher issues to deal with than weather.

I don’t really have to dress up for work yet, but when I do I plan on getting up a little earlier to avoid the heat. After work, who cares I going home sweat it up. I employ some odor fighting practices and ignore the sweat, which is saying quite a bit because I can really sweat.

The biggest obstacles in College Station are the six lane racetrack (Texas Ave) dividing the city in half and some childish mentalities still held by some “Texas Men” about cyclists on the roads.

I think biking is worth it. I’ll bike despite the elements.

Felix

]]> By: marcos http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/15/the-two-wheeling-future-of-fort-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-6308 marcos Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:30:45 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2414#comment-6308 My parents forced me to live in Texas during the 1970s and 1980s, and I got around exclusively by bicycle in Austin during the late 1980s. When it is > 90F and > 80% relative humidity for 1/3 of the year, cycling even a short distance becomes difficult. It is a little less humid in the metroplex of North Texas where Fart Worse is than in the migasplex of Central Texas, but it is also hotter up north. Cycling the five blocks from my West Campus housing cooperative to my office or class on campus was a drenching experience for half of the year. Biking for fun down Shoal Creek to the Barton Creek Greenbelt bike path was possible because the creek would be running (not yet with the effluent of the affluent caused by subsequent rampant development) or the springs were there for a cool off. Of course that Austin had a fully fleshed out bicycle lane network in place by the early 1980s made matters easier. Tucson is often above 100F but enjoys relative humidities that approach the single digits; you just don't sweat. -marc My parents forced me to live in Texas during the 1970s and 1980s, and I got around exclusively by bicycle in Austin during the late 1980s. When it is > 90F and > 80% relative humidity for 1/3 of the year, cycling even a short distance becomes difficult. It is a little less humid in the metroplex of North Texas where Fart Worse is than in the migasplex of Central Texas, but it is also hotter up north.

Cycling the five blocks from my West Campus housing cooperative to my office or class on campus was a drenching experience for half of the year. Biking for fun down Shoal Creek to the Barton Creek Greenbelt bike path was possible because the creek would be running (not yet with the effluent of the affluent caused by subsequent rampant development) or the springs were there for a cool off. Of course that Austin had a fully fleshed out bicycle lane network in place by the early 1980s made matters easier.

Tucson is often above 100F but enjoys relative humidities that approach the single digits; you just don’t sweat.

-marc

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