Thanks to bike advocates like you, Dallas City Council unanimously passed the bike plan on May 28, 2025! In that plan, the city is conservatively planning out a 20 year timeline for a basic network of 150 miles of on-street bike lanes (The rest of the planned lanes have no clear timeline). With your advocacy for more funding and a faster timeline, we could cut that 20 years in half. Build the bike plan! Make it safe!

Read DBC's letter to City Council, signed by our 60 community partners and sent before the bike plan vote. This letter details our 2025 priorities, including more funding in the budget, appropriate staffing, and transparency and safety as a priority.

CALL TO ACTION

Council has proposed amendments to cut bike lane funding and other suggestions have been made to cut Vision Zero. City Council takes a non-binding vote on proposed amendments at the September 3 meeting, but if you miss that deadline, it is still helpful to reach out for the next couple weeks until the budget is passed. Future amendments can be made up to and including the day of the final budget vote on September 17.

More detail and draft language for an email are on the latest DBC blog.

** Update 9/3/25: The September 3 proposed budget amendment to cut bike lane funding by $400,000 failed at the September 3 council meeting. Continue to watch for any updates until the final 2026 budget vote on September 17.

***Update 9/17/25: The original proposed budget for bike lanes and maintenance passed city council. Thank you for your advocacy! We will continue to push for more funding and a faster build out of the bike plan.

DBC Advocacy

Accomplishments

• The Dallas Bike Plan was passed in May 2025! DBC rallied advocates for hundreds of comments and meetings to get the plan where it is. The plan outlines over 600 miles added to our current 148 miles of bike facilities. This includes neighborhood bikeways, on-street bike lanes, and trails.
• DBC advocates rallied to save $400,000 in proposed cuts to the bike plan for the 2026 Dallas annual budget. Advocates have pushed year after year and encouraged City Council to dedicate more than $10 million for bike lanes in the last 5 years in the annual budget.
• DBC advocates succeeded in getting "All Ages and Abilities" added to the the bike plan, which is a nationally recognized design standard. Biking is for everyone, and we need a safe, connected network that reflects that. Safe riding for all ages and abilities has since become a "north star" of the bike plan.
• DBC volunteers helped the city create a bike parking map to help current navigation and to highlight areas for improvement. Since then, bike parking code was improved in Dallas Parking Reform, and we continue to work with local businesses and the community to improve bike parking options.
• DBC advocates asked the city to create a bike sweeping map. This is the first time that we have documentation of bike lanes being swept. We have more work to do to make sweeping better and bike lanes safer, but this is a great start!
• Dallas was recognized as a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community by the Bike League, bolstered by the bike community that DBC is a part of and seeks to grow.
• DBC successfully advocated for a standing Bicycle Advisory Committee. It is set to launch in Fall 2025.
• Currently, DBC volunteers are building out the Bike Streets high comfort bike route app. This new tool will fill a gap of safe bike routing and continue to encourage biking as a transportation option for all ages and abilities.

Campaigns

• Bike to Work Week in May every year.
• Week Without Driving during the first week of October every year.

Community Outreach

• Bike Valet
• Bike and Walk Audits
• Bike Lane Sweeping

Next Steps

• Build the Bike Plan! We are focused on implementation on the recently passed bike plan. This not only includes more funding, but on policies that highlight efficiency like our ask to include bike lane implementation in the street resurfacing plan.
• Make it Safe! We continue to support Vision Zero goals at the city. Tragically, fatalities and crashes are higher than when Dallas started the program. Implementing the bike plan is one tool to protect people biking and walking, to slow down cars, and to make Dallas roads safer for all.
• Pursue our Vision. We envision a future where biking is a popular, convenient, and safe mode of transportation in the city of Dallas. This means we will continue to advocate for services like ciclovia, bike share, and e-bike rebate programs. We will also be in the community leading the way with bike valet, bike and walk audits, and bike lane sweeping.