The Richardson City Council met June 15, 2026, and reviewed the FY 2026-2027 Transportation and Mobility Work Plan. I'm not going to review that here. If you are interested (and you should be), you can watch the whole discussion online. Here's what two of the council members had to say.
Mayor Pro Tem Ken Hutchenrider:
Lastly, in this, I bring it up, I think probably every year when it comes to bicycles and mobility and the whole nine yards, everything that you have in front of us today is really designed, and I believe discussing standard bicycles that people are on who, you know, family et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I still get a lot of feedback because I'm up here in the panhandle about bike clubs and about, you know, and again, I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm not, I don't, I'm not trying to put forth an opinion. I'm trying to put out the concern is, is there any, can the, can the BPAC take a look at that and discuss that? Because I get a lot of feedback from people that say, when you've got 25, 30 cyclists in a pack on Renner at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, it's creating, it creates a safety issue. Again, I'm not, I don't know the right answer. I'm not I'm not proposing a right answer tonight. They're just asking could that be looked at? And should there be some type of review and some type of discussion along those lines? Because everything we, everything that I see up here when we talk about looking at mobility, looking at, you know, people being able to cross over 75, it's very much that I, if there's like a family or 1 or 2 people wanting to get across there, et cetera, et cetera, it's not a group of 25, 30 cyclists going down one particular road at a particular time or anything along those lines. And so I get asked that a lot, given that I'm up here in the panhandle, I don't think it's as much of an issue on the west side of town. But I hear a lot, a lot of people, my neighborhood is really because there's a lot of riders that are, that are there on North Star, Renner, the whole nine yards. And so I get this. There's not a week that goes by that somebody has not passed a group of, of the bike, bike club cyclists. And, you know, the question is, is there any, you know, any review, any discussion, a way to make things safer? You know, no one, no one's trying to say that people can't do cycling and bike clubs can't be out there. But should there be a discussion from a safety perspective? So I've got to ask again, just because if I don't and someone asks me.
Council Member Joe Corcoran:
I'll go pretty fast. Just as far as feedback on the Active Transportation projects, my feedback is, if you were to ask me the top things that I would want to do, those, that is the list. So that's great. Keep doing what you're doing.
Transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.
"He faults the cyclists
For creating road dangers.
Offers no ideas."
—h/t ChatGPT
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