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What can the City’s Department of Transportation do for us?
Every year we meet with the City of Dallas Department of Transportation in order to be the squeaky wheel and ensure that the pedestrian...
Friends of Bachman Lake
Feb 34 min read
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Friends of Bachman Lake - July 2024
The latest Friends of Bachman Lake newsletter focuses on navtive plantings at Bachman and how cleanup events are needed year-round.
Friends of Bachman Lake
Jul 5, 20245 min read
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Friends of Bachman Lake Newsletter - June 2024
"The way I see, it if you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain." – Dolly Parton Whose on First? TXDOT or DWU Stormwater? In...
Friends of Bachman Lake
Jun 12, 20245 min read
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A Primer on DFW's Regional Trails also known as the VeloWeb
New Word: Agglomeration Definition: A large group of many different things collected or brought together See? You can always learn...
Friends of Bachman Lake
Jun 6, 20243 min read
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The latest on the City Bicycle Plan
The updates to the City of Dallas Bicycle Plan will be presented to the North Texas Council of Governments in the upcoming weeks. In...
Friends of Bachman Lake
Apr 4, 20232 min read
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Contemplating Bike Plans: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again... and again and again"
TheDallas Bike plan has some missing parts: like things we asked for in the past for our area. More work needs to be done and you can help!
Friends of Bachman Lake
Nov 2, 20222 min read
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Friends of Bachman Lake Newsletter - March 2022
Bachman Planning Study getting ready for review to Council; Lake dredging project begins; Runway construction finish delayed until summer...
Friends of Bachman Lake
Mar 4, 20223 min read
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What do elections have to do with parks? Everything.
Whom do you vote for when it comes time to do your civic duty? Start with questions about your parks. It could be very telling.
Friends of Bachman Lake
Feb 28, 20225 min read
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Park Here. And There too. And Everywhere We Can.
Love Field will be using some of the protected area at the end of a runway for a park. Thanks to you, #GiveMeGreen is more than a slogan!
Friends of Bachman Lake
Jan 28, 20224 min read
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Even a Zoom hack can't stop us!
There's some very important information about plans to transform areas around Bachman Lake that you need to be a part of!
Friends of Bachman Lake
Dec 3, 20216 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - September 2021
American Heart Association Heart Walk is coming. Be a great Friend to Bachman Lake Park on North Texas Giving Day. Lights Out for the birds!
Friends of Bachman Lake
Sep 6, 20212 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - August 2021
New members are now part of the Friends of Bachman Lake Board; we've got an update on the Bachman Lake Skate Park and the Bachman Area Plann
Friends of Bachman Lake
Aug 9, 20213 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - July 2021 Summer Series
“Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” — 14th century proverb The Internet for Dallas Coalition has published the 24 zip codes with poor...
Friends of Bachman Lake
Jul 7, 20213 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - June 2021 Summer Series
“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it” — Alice Walker And so...
Friends of Bachman Lake
Jun 13, 20212 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - May 2021
Elections, cleaning up Bachman, reporting the granular news that matters to you, and an interactive way to comment on the Bachman Area Plan.
Friends of Bachman Lake
May 6, 20216 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - April 2021
What are Friends groups for, anyway? Some changes to Northwest Highway could use your input; Community engagement & the political landscape.
Friends of Bachman Lake
Apr 7, 20217 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - February 2021
Birds, skaters, planes, trains and big city pains. We've got it all in this issue of the Friends of Bachman Lake newsletter!
Friends of Bachman Lake
Feb 1, 20219 min read
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January 2021 Newsletter
2020 was surely different, but thanks to your commitment to Bachman Lake and the community, we managed to get quite a few things done!
Friends of Bachman Lake
Jan 7, 20214 min read
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December Newsletter
Fighting bridges, contemplating tunnels and swimming upstream to add more green. What a year it's been. With your help, we'll get it done!
Friends of Bachman Lake
Dec 14, 20206 min read
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November Newsletter
There's a mobility plan for the Bachman Area in the works and we need community input! Trees: a priority for some but not all entities.
Friends of Bachman Lake
Nov 12, 20205 min read
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