Bike this

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
This Friday, burn calories instead of gas when you break out your pedal machine for Central Oklahoma Bike to Work Day. The event is part of a national campaign to encourage bicycling and to show its benefits for health and as an efficient mode of transportation.

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Two-wheel deal

OKC has a history of a DIY bicycling community, but could an increase in cyclists bring more innovative programs seen in other cities?

Features
Brendan Hoover
In New York City, a nonprofit organization named Recycle-A-Bicycle provides educational and job-training programs while encouraging environmental stewardship and everyday bicycle use. Members salvage about 1,200 bicycles each year and last year worked with 1,000 young people through public schools and after-school programs.

 

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Pedal power

Get on that bike and ride! Around downtown, that is.

News
Clifton Adcock
As Queen’s Freddie Mercury once put it, if Jaws was never your scene and you don’t like Star Wars ... there’s always the option of riding a bicycle in downtown Oklahoma City, which is going to get a little easier after Friday.

 

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Bike boom

OKC bicycling get a boost from the creation of special bike lanes and expansion of downtown’s bike-share program.

News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City has begun work creating the first street lanes that will be shared between bicycles and cars. That development comes amid an expansion of the city’s downtown bike-share program.

 

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Walk on

Work is ready to get under way on the first phase of sidewalk construction under MAPS 3.

News
Tim Farley
Sidewalk construction may not be the sexiest MAPS 3 project, but it will serve a practical purpose for a number of Oklahoma City’s neighborhoods and main thoroughfares.

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2013