Cyclists using paintbrushes to make their voices heard Published: Tags: HOUSTON – Chad Freeman loves to bike around the Heights area but says that sense of peace is quickly disturbed when you have dedicated bike lanes that abruptly end or aren’t complete, forcing cyclists into traffic. “I have an injury from where I fell a couple weeks ago, so I mean sometimes at a stop sign, you jump off your bike and fall because someone’s not paying attention,” according to Freeman. Connecting bike lanes and routes is imperative to keep cyclists safe and to this point, advocates have been working with the city to temporarily paint bike lanes where there are gaps making it unsafe for bikers to continue on their route.