FAQs
What is your mission statement?
Our mission is project the landscape of Northern Texas into equitable and inviting people-centered spaces opening access and connection for every body. We accomplish this through organizing, advocacy, public actions, and holding city and state agencies accountable to build out the network of safe, protected bike infrastructure.
What is your vision?
We believe that the more folks we have on bikes the safer it is for everyone!
We envision a North Texas where people can safely ride for transportation and leisure on a network of connected, low-stress and physically separated infrastructure year round. As a result, residents are healthier, cities greener with less pollution from motor vehicles, and traffic congestion eased as more and more opt for biking to reach their destinations.
Equity is central to our vision of the future. Many will use bikes to connect to other forms of transit, which will be functional, well-maintained, and convenient. Inequities in health narrow and neighbors across the North Texas community can more easily access opportunities—education, employment, leisure, and commerce—safely by bicycle.
In our vision of the future, municipalities will fund bicycle infrastructure, access and education at levels that are meaningful. Residents, trained in organizing best practices, will be engaged and active in planning their communities and agencies will keep their promises to build and maintain bike facilities in a timely manner.
What are your values?
People power: We know that many voices are more powerful than one, and that organizing residents to speak up for their desired future not only brings in multiple perspectives, it decentralizes power, flexes strength, and leaves people feeling energized and civically engaged.
Dignifying each person: We value the humanity of our area's residents. We seek to realize a mobility culture that places people ahead of vehicles and in which each journey recognizes people as beings deserving of respect. We recognize that creating a community that is inclusive takes work, and we strive to do the work to make any person who rides a bicycle feel welcome anywhere they are present.
Mobility justice: We recognize that inequitable investment in transportation infrastructure has left many without viable access to opportunity, and seek to reverse this pattern. In order to achieve a genuinely just transportation system, all users must have access to safe and comfortable trips, regardless of their chosen mode of travel and free from harassment or bias.
Joy and freedom: We celebrate the joy inherent in the basic physicality of moving about the area by bicycle. People on bikes maintain connection with their surroundings, other people, the community, and the natural world. We relish and nurture the vibrant bicycle culture and community in our area.
Sustainability: We see bicycles as a key ingredient in healthy, ecologically adaptive settlements. We believe that bicycles can and must play a central role in the mobility future.