Tonight is the meeting of the City of Austin Bicycle Advisory Council and part of the agenda includes discussion of proposed amendments to the recently adopted Master Bicycle Plan. The suggested changes come from Jim Carrillo, a planning consultant hired by the City with Halff Associates, Inc. The amendments include the removal of Speedway on [...]
Posts on ‘July 16th, 2009’
Bike share concept that would add power to the grid
Talk about a convergence of green concepts. Designer Chiyi Chen has come up with a concept that combines bike sharing, renewable energy, and regenerative hybrid technology into one system. The Hybrid2 would use ultracapacitors to store the energy produced by a bicycle and feed it back into the grid when the bike is put back [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 7/16- 7/22/09
Does anyone remember what it was like to have a non-100 degree plus day or a night where it dips below 80 degrees? Luckily the Thursday Night Urban Ride and Tuesday’s Midnight Ridazz have the right idea with some mid-ride wet and wild. If you must ride sans swimming check out Sunday’s Austin Flyers’ Chipotle [...]
