Dallas Bike Plan Calls for Accelerating Bike Infrastructure

City officials acknowledge Dallas lags behind in bicycle infrastructure, but a new plan could change that.

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January 29, 2025, 9:00 AM PST

By Diana Ionescu @aworkoffiction


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Dallas officials are proposing a new bike plan that would add 200 miles of bike lanes to the city over the next two decades, noting that Dallas, with its 204 miles of existing bike lanes, lags far behind other Texas cities like Houston (518 miles) and Austin (538 miles) in bike infrastructure.

According to a WFAA article by Rachel Snyder, “The first phase of the city’s new bike plan, to add 27 miles of new bike lanes, trails and more to the city’s network over the next five years, is mostly funded, city officials say.”

A 2022 survey ranked Dallas as the least bikeable of 50 major U.S. cities. “According to Share The Road Texas, an organization focused on bike safety on college campuses, there were 21 deaths in Dallas County from bicycle crashes from 2010 to 2016 and 1,439 crashes. Harris, Travis, Bexar, Dallas and Tarrant Counties saw the most bicycle crashes in the state during that period.”

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