{"id":267531,"date":"2013-07-10T02:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=267531"},"modified":"2013-07-11T02:26:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:26:53","slug":"bikes-not-allowed-on-loop-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=267531","title":{"rendered":"Bikes Not Allowed on Loop 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/Loop-49.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/Loop-49-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Loop 49\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-267532\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA &#8212; Bicycles are being banned on Loop 49. The Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority voted on the ban at its Tuesday meeting in Texarkana. A proposal had been made to allow bicycles on a portion of the toll road on the weekends, but that proposal was rejected. It will now be up to the Department of Public Safety to enforce the ban. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The action is a disappointment for the for the Tyler Bicycle Club. The group had raised money for a bike lane. They had been required to raise $65,000 for a bike lane for Loop 49. They instead raised $100,000. Club member Laurie Simpson tells KETK, &#8220;there is supposed to be an alternative path that&#8217;s beside, kind of like a service road possibly, there&#8217;s about a fifty-fifty chance that we could get that&#8221; She says the board&#8217;s action will force bikers to ride down county roads, which she says is more dangerous than on the highways, since many times, vehicles can&#8217;t see them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA &#8212; Bicycles are being banned on Loop 49. The Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority voted on the ban at its Tuesday meeting in Texarkana. A proposal had been made to allow bicycles on a portion of the toll road on the weekends, but that proposal was rejected. It will now be up to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=267531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bikes Not Allowed on Loop 49<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 16:17:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267531"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267785,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267531\/revisions\/267785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}