In Texas, tea party folks oppose adding miles of bike lanes - on national sovereignty grounds.
San Antonio plans to triple bike-able and walk-able streets by 2020. Dallas, long thought the worst city for bicycles in America, has unveiled ambitious plans for a new network of more than 1,100 miles of bike lanes over the next ten years. Since 2011 four Texan cities have begun bike-sharing schemes, most recently in Austin just before Christmas. Advocates tout the benefits to health and the environment, and hope bicycles will relieve congestion in the busiest parts of town.Not everyone is pleased. True, the number of cyclists has greatly increased in most Texas cities, in line with national trends. From 1990 to 2012 bike commutes in Austin grew by 68%, according to the League of American Bicyclists. Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth have also seen notable, albeit more modest, gains. But bicycles still make up only a sliver of the state's urban commutes at 2% (Portland, America’s most bike-loving city, boasts more than 6%). That number plummets further still in rural parts of the state. Suburbanites grumble that they will be subsidising a lifestyle choice for downtown hipsters, as the new bike lanes and bike-sharing schemes will be largely funded by local taxes and bonds. Many are sceptical that bicycles will help ease traffic; indeed, nixing a car lane for bicycles might make things worse (just look at what reducing car lanes on the George Washington Bridge did for the drivers of New Jersey).
More fanciful objections have been raised to scuttle plans for two-wheeled transport initiatives. A contingent of activists linked to the Tea Party decry plans to encourage walking and cycling as surreptitious means of undermining American sovereignty by the United Nations. Such critics see the bike lanes as a product of Agenda 21—an international statement of sustainability principles adopted 20 years ago at the Rio Conference. Apparently the UN's encroachment on America's liberties starts with getting Americans out of their cars. Agenda 21 has been rousingly condemned by Republicans nationally, and related fears poured cold water on bicycle plans in conservative suburban towns around Dallas. Though the principles of Agenda 21 are "turgid, vapid, self-satisfied and of course non-binding", they have become an easy way to galvanise the more paranoid wing of the Republican party. A bill introduced in the state House to advocate bike-able streets in the 2013 legislative session was quickly linked to Agenda 21 and languished in committee.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/01/cycling-texas
Just when you think you have heard the last of Agenda 21, it rises on the far-right to fight the dreaded bike lane that is destroying American life.
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She has conducted Town-Hall meetings while riding bikes. She has implemented bike lanes and we also now have rent a bikes throughout the city in various locations.
Hopefully she will continue to be an advocate for improving our city for bikers!
We (my hubby and I) are in the renovating older bikes and selling them. It is a lot of fun seeing people come over and buying old bikes that have been brought back to life.
Our city also has a couple of biking groups that ride after dark, there is a pub crawl and a critical mass that meets weekly and monthly.
The Teabaggers can take a hike, the fresh air might do them good.
Thx for the OP 
I love it! What a great idea 
I have a bike I sorely need to get height-adjusted, or just get on it and make do. Because there are plenty of places not far from here (a couple of miles at the most) for some good trail riding. And Houston is constantly expanding those trails.
Years ago I wrote to them about using pipeline and power ROWs as there's a myriad of them across the city, and often with limited road crossings. Houston is supposedly working on doing just that, so it was good to see some people are thinking the same way. Most of the trails right now follow the bayous and old rail lines. I'll have to look at one of their maps and see if they've started using the existing ROWs yet.
Thanks for refurbishing bikes, too! That helps the whole community
define the area I live in. That would be the same as trashing my birthstate of WI and my other homestate of MI simply because they voted idiots in as Governors. 
