Dallas Is the Worst When It Comes to Cycling to Work? Gee, Can't Imagine Why. No, Wait ...

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I live 6 bikeable miles from my job, but when I decided to bike there rather than drive, my boss had a conniption fit. The weather was mild and the wind wasn't unmanageable (it was a great week, LOL!) but she had this vision of a smelly, sweaty "athlete" who was going to stink up the clinic. Never mind that I kept my clean uniforms in my locker, took a shower BEFORE leaving with antibacterial soap and applied plenty of deodorant to the areas that typically sweat and start smelling, and I would freshen up before my shift. She admitted that I didn't reek of sweat and BO when I got to work, but she still banned me from bicycle commuting. Yes, BANNED, as in I would be written up if I kept cycling to work. I was supposed to do my cycling at White Rock Lake or someplace like that. I didn't have the heart to tell her that my route takes me through White Rock for most of the distance! Yet she also harps constantly about how much gasoline and pollution we Americans use and generate with our cars, as she hops into her little Prius. Ha, what she doesn't know is that I take a one hour ride every day on our 2.5-hour lunch break! :)

So, where exactly does it say that you can't ride without a bike lane?  Are you going to spend your days whining about a lack of marked bike lanes or are you going to get your helmet on, follow the traffic laws, and take to the road like the rest of us?  Besides, do you think a bike lane is going to magically make it safe or wonderful for you to ride even if the money was there to paint the lanes?  Until we taxpayers are willing to fork over some money to make these types of things happen, we're going to have to make due with what we have.  Complaining about it isn't doing anything.

How about elevated bike lanes? Zipping down 35 about a hundred feet in the air - nice view too?

The daydreamers who fantasize about a simpler life involving riding your bike to work in a large city need to pull their heads out of their assess.  Recreational, yep.  For work, nope.

Who wants to show up at work clammy and sweaty with your clothes jammed in backpack? Commuting on a bicycle makes sense if you live less than five miles away from work and you wash dishes for a living.

No, nobody bikes here because of the lousy climate.  Windy, rainy (most years) and cold from Nov-Mar, hot from Jun-Sep.  How can you bike to work in the summer unless you can take a shower once you get there? And I would be most office buildings don't have showers,  The ones I've worked in didn't unless there was an on-site fitness center.

Come on y'all, this isn't Seattle, San Francisco, or Portland.

This bicycle cargo cult drumbeating is getting tiresome.  A lack of infrastructure is not the reason we don't ride bikes to work in Dallas.  It's the heat and humidity.  We are vain but practical people.  Bike route or not, most people don't want to show up for work wet and sweaty.

Half a billion in bonds for the Omni Light Show Hotel and zilch for bike lanes pretty well spells out Dallas City values.

www.cyclingsavvydfw.org, Feb 3 and 4. Come learn Truth and Techniques --- if you want. Surprised that City Council will listen to someone who advocates infrastructure and not education, when one is far cheaper than the other, can be implemented immediately, is truly effective, and creates options you never thought might exist. Robert - when was the last time you commuted to work, and if not, why not come take the class?

I still haven't heard a valid argument about the expense of having bike lanes, when Dallas has a litany of other problems to allocate money to.  Everyone just comes in here, and spouts off about bikers rights, blah blah blah.......I get that, but, most of us don't care.  And that is how you know when an issue is pertinent.  I realize you can't get across the Trinity on a bike-I'm real sorry!  I can't get to Oklahoma on my bike; it's called reality.  Fix your crappy schools, decaying streets and drug addled neighborhoods, and will  I personally come down on a Saturday, and paint a bike lane.  Calling for change is good......asking for change when Rome is burning is just plain dumb.  Affecting a change is also good, but throwing a cup of water on a forest fire is completely impractical. 

ps-Get an elliptical bike. ________

List of Dallas City Priorities:

1)Schools2) Streets3)Gangs..............................................................................................................................................................1487) Getting bike lanes. 

Biking to work is impracticle for most people which is why they don't do it. Unless bike lanes are seperated physically from traffic they offer virtually no protection and little benefit based on their cost. How many people do you see using the bike racks on Dart buses? Dallas isn't Europe or China and the sooner people realize that the sooner the city can begin focusing on improving basic services and quit spending money on projects that will never have a pay back. 

There is no way on God's green earth I am going to bike to, and more importanly from, work in this environment.

Maybe it's because the cops keep stopping riders on the road and telling them to get on the sidewalk.  At least that's what they do up here in the north suburbs.  Sheesh!

It's not the absence of infrastructure that keeps me from riding the 5 miles to my office, it is the presence of Audi-driving, texting-while-driving, self-absorbed douchebags on the roads who find it too big of an inconvenience to fully exit my lane while passing me.

Plano has recently added "Bicycles May Take The Entire Lane" signs on a lot of roads.  I'll give that message a few months to sink in and I'll try it again.

If they add some sweet jumps to the bike plan, i'm behind it...100%! Party on, dudes!

I'm a .1%er! Awesome!

DART isn't being very awesome either. I just got a ticket for pressing the "reduced one-way" button instead of the "full-price one way" button. $.20 difference = $50 fine. In considering whether to pass me on, the lady asks, "Where stop are you getting off?" I says, "Cityplace." She wrote the ticket. I wonder if I had said "Oak Cliff" if she would passed me by? Smells like discrimination. And udder idiocy. From now on, I'm walking to school, and drinking Maker's the entire way there.