Several Dallas City Council members expressed a desire for city staff to create a connected system that will allow more people to use bicycles as a way to get around, and not just for recreation.
"Years ago we said we want to be a suburban-style city and have roads that go everywhere and that is why you have districts like mine and further into District 12, because we made that decision as a city to go horizontal instead of vertical," said Councilwoman Jaynie Schultz.
"DART went through their analysis in their bus plan looking at geographic coverage versus ridership. I personally would rather us focus most of our money and efforts on the core of ridership, even if it hurts my district," said Dallas City Councilman Chad West.They would be allowed in the bike lanes, but not on trails, per a Dallas ordinance.
"You are talking about taking a lane away from some of these roads and it's already very heavy traffic, so I think that you'r going to need to hear that from some of the folks. If they were willing to convert to bikes, like Councilmember Schultz was saying, maybe that works out. I rarely see somebody on a bike on one of the roads, they are on the trails," Mendelsohn said.
Councilwoman Carolyn King Arnold says Dallas needs to beware of becoming like Austin, where she says there is a confusing system of mobility options.
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