Posts on ‘January 16th, 2009’

I want to give a shout of thanks out to Bike Hugger who saved me from writers block in penning my weekly diatribe against stupid products. I was having a hard time figuring out what to write about this week, so I took up surfing all my favorite sites to delay the inevitable and came [...]

Last night, Austin Chronicle reporter Dan Mottola had his bike stolen from his house near 38th and Guadalupe. Bummer! He sent out this e-mail asking everyone to keep an eye out for it. I was getting ready to go out and had the bike in my back yard for maybe 10 minutes while I took [...]

Jason at ATXBS has a very good synopsis of several things that were discussed at the BAC Thursday night, including the upcoming funding of bike boxes in test locations (yay!), the Austin Bicycle Plan being almost ready for a review (having an open house for comments on March 9 was tentatively discussed, sign our petition [...]

I just got off the phone with Rob D’Amico at the League Of Bicycling Voters, and he let me know that the agenda items to request over $5 million in federal stimulus bill funding for bicycle projects passed the City Council on unanimous consent yesterday. Thank you to everyone who responded to Rob’s call to [...]