"O what a tangled web we weave..."

The North Central Texas Council of Governments is hosting the first in a series of county specific meetings to review the Regional Veloweb, a 644 mile off-street trail network planned for the Metroplex,

At the Tarrant County Regional Veloweb Review meeting, NCTCOG staff will give a presentation on the history of the Regional Veloweb and long term goals for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program. City planners, government staff, and interested Tarrant County residents will then have an opportunity to review maps, identify priorities for the county, and provide NCTCOG with feedback about planned and existing trails. Information from the Regional Veloweb Review meetings will be used to update and expand upon regional bicycle and pedestrian planning efforts.

The Tarrant County meeting will be held at 3 pm, Thursday, March 6, 2008, on the second floor of the Intermodal Transportation Center (1001 Jones Street, Fort Worth, map). Please see the attached meeting notice for details and visit http://www.nctcog.org/trans/sustdev/bikeped/veloweb.asp for updates to the County Meeting Schedule. If you are unable to attend the meeting scheduled within your county, please do not hesitate to contact me with your comments or attend one of the other county specific meetings. The second county specific meeting will be held on April 3, 2008, in Denton County.

Thank you in advance for your support of regional bicycle and pedestrian planning efforts.

Jen Ebel

Transportation Planner

Sustainable Development

jebel@nctcog.org

office: 817-695-9255

fax: 817-640-9028

North Central Texas Council of Governments

PO Box 5888

Arlington, TX 76005-5888

ü Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Magick Paint Purveyors coming to a town near you.

Problem: How do you get a bike lane safely across a heavily-traveled exit ramp that leads to an urban highway?

Solution: You apply blue paint across the automobile's path. The Magick-Blue paint will create a car-safe zone for the cyclist to enter (or at least, it will help create the illusion of a car-safe zone).

Note: A Dallas City Council member, the friends of the Katy Trail ("The best thing the Katy Trail has done is to get bicycles off the streets of Dallas" said a FotKT supporter) and a consortium of Arts District people have awarded a $75,000 contract to the Alta Design Group, America's largest proponents of Magic Blue Bike Lanes. The purpose of the study is to connect the Katy Trail to the proposed $120,000,000 Woodall Rodgers Deck Park over Spur 366 north of the Arts District.

Sheldon Brown, R.I.P.

1944 - 2008