A public hearing will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 2:30pm to discuss the next steps for the Houston Bike Plan. The Houston Bike Plan is the result of a 12-month cooperative study to assess and design a comprehensive network across the city that would make bicycling a safer, more easily accessible and available transit option for more Houstonians.
Bike Houston, one of the Plan partners, noted, "Full completion of the bikeway network would put high-comfort bikeways within reach of over 95% of people and jobs in the city. Within the short term, there is an opportunity for modest investments to add 381 miles to the current bikeways network. If fully implemented, the planned network would provide over six times more high-comfort bikeways miles than what exists now."
In late 2016, the Memorial District joined the efforts to promote bicycling within the District with the instillation of a bike share station at Pearl CItyCentre and a plan of installing 12 future bike share stations around the District in the next 3 years. We hope to continue to support biking initiatives in and around the city in the coming year.
The hearing takes place at the Council Chambers in the City Hall Annex, 900 Bagby.
For more information on the plan visit HoustonBIkePlan.org