Early Voting started today for the Saturday, May 9 Austin City Council Election. On the ballot are the Mayor’s race as well as five other council seats, an effective super majority of the council. With issues like passage of the new 2020 Master Bike Plan and more importantly ensuring it is fully funded coming in [...]
Posts on ‘April 27th, 2009’
Bike sales still going strong
From the Fort Myers, Florida News-Press comes this story on the state of the bicycle industry. Interestingly, the story there focuses more on bicycles being used for cheap recreation and not transport, although it just may be the location. I’ve heard that commuter sales are still going well in Austin too and that lots of [...]
Bicycle News Roundup, 4/27/09
GOOD MORNING! Sorry we haven’t posted as much as usual around here. Both of us have been extraordinarily busy with other projects in the past week. Our first link of this ‘Roundup’ covers one of those developments. Elliott’s Violet Crown Cycles site has launched and will have an online ordering system soon with loads of [...]
Chu likes bike commuting
Our Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, was apparently an avid bicycle commuter until now, and wishes he still could, but security concerns are getting in the way. I wonder why his security team can’t just ride with him…guess they would be afraid of getting run off the road? Check out the full story at the Huffington [...]
