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Posts on ‘July 7th, 2009’

City Staff on DIY Bike Lanes: Leave the painting to the professionals

Over at the Bicycle Austin forum e-mail list, a poster recently suggested some guerrilla street painting to carve out space for cyclists on Austin streets specifically on parts of Parmer Lane and along the IH-35 access road. The post was in response to a recent Bicycling magazine article about a group in Los Angeles that [...]

Some see bicycles as savior for Detroit

For a century, Detroit was the center of America’s slow dismantling of non-automotive forms of transportation, but with the American auto industry reeling, some are seeing the bicycle as a possible tool of renewal. The New York Times recently wrote how the flat and relatively deserted center city of the Motown have made for a [...]