Dallas City Council adopts 2025 Dallas Bike Plan
Dallas City Council on Wednesday adopted the 2025 Dallas Bike Plan, which sets targets for growing the city’s biking network while emphasizing safety, comfort, and maintenance.
The Dallas Bike Plan, first developed in 1975 and last updated in 2011, has been the City’s guide for implementing a system of on and off-street bike lanes and infrastructure. The update approved Wednesday expands on the network that has been implemented with a strong focus of building a network that encourages bicyclists of all ages and abilities to explore Dallas.
“City Council has made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change,” District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez said. “One of the ways of doing that is to reduce the number of people driving in cars or by themselves.”
As the City continues working toward its bike plan goals, the 2025 Bike Plan update creates a phased, flexible approach to build projects and grow the network as additional funding becomes available. The plan defines and prioritizes which routes the City should target for biking infrastructure and addresses the focus Dallas residents have expressed through multiple rounds of community engagement for connecting existing gaps in the bike network, providing connections to trails and transit links, more connections in denser parts of the city, and enhancements near schools.
Resident input is central to the Bike Plan. City staff will establish a permanent bicycle advisory committee in coming months that will help implement and advance the plan. The city will continue to engage with neighborhoods as future bike projects are built.
“We know that getting more people to bike isn’t just about building a network,” said Dr. Gus Khankarli, director of the Dallas Transportation and Public Works Department. “This plan integrates with our multi-modal system and gives us a set of key action items that should be targeted over the next five to ten years by staff in several city departments and in coordination with our advocacy partners.”
Access the Dallas Bike Plan here: www.dallasbikeplan2025.org.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Dallas has been certified a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community by The League of American Bicyclists for its commitment and growing passion for bicycling in the city.
- 40 percent of Dallas bike trips are three miles or less
- A cyclist can bike about three miles in 15 minutes along direct, comfortable routes
