The west side of Bachman Lake Trail is open again after a couple years of dam construction. The new section is wonderful. Blissfully smooth asphalt. The switchbacks at the SW corner were added to keep the grade ADA compliant, not too steep.

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Thanks to a mapping project #DallasBicycleCoalition is working on, we've found another rail-to-trail connection, this one between Greenbriar stop on the #Dallas Streetcar line and Coombs Creek Trail. A bit long at 1.2 km, but otherwise nice and low stress. Takes advantage of some recently built bicycle infrastructure along Beckley and the new CC trail extension.

That makes 35 #DART rail stations with passable to good bike trail connections. Full map:
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#TxDOT would like you to know that they in fact do freeway removals. In this case, the conversion of S M Wright Freeway to Boulevard, in #SouthDallas.

Now, one can argue that the "boulevard" is still 6–7 lanes wide, that they turned US 175 into an elevated highway in the process, and that S M Wright was a dumb urban highway to begin with, running parallel as it does to I-45 and being largely redundant.

But they are adding 12' shared-use paths on either side, which is nice.

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