The City of Austin is getting ready to paint new bike lanes all over town, and the League of Bicycling Voters is encouraging participation in City hosted open houses around town to ensure good facilities get built. In many cases, these new lanes will entail the removal of a limited number of current on street car parking (usually only on one side of the street to ensure there is no parking in the bike lane.) Whether they get used or not, sometimes neighborhood residents get a little prickly about car parking removal so your input is important.

The first of the open houses occurred last night and covered Eberhart Lane (S 1st to S Congress), Eberhart Lane (Cooper to S 1st), Speer Lane (Emerald Forest to Cooper), Banister Lane (Garden Villa to Ben White), Emerald Forest (Stassney to William Cannon), Southridge (Banister to Clawson), and
Victory (Panther to Prather). If you missed that open house or can’t make one of the upcoming ones and you live on or near one of these streets, or if you frequently bike one of these routes, please contact the City of Austin Bike Program with your feedback: Neil Kopper, neil.kopper@ci.austin.tx.us or 512-974-7166.

There will be additional open houses starting tonight. All open houses are 6:00-7:30pm.

• Wednesday, June 29, Grace Covenant Christian School, 9431 Jollyville Rd.  Streets covered: Greystone (Chimney Corners to Mesa) and Hart Lane (Far West to Spicewood Springs)
• Thursday, June 30, Austin Public Library- St. John Branch, 7500 Blessing Ave. Streets covered: Woodrow (Koenig to Anderson), Fairfield Drive (Maine to Lamar),
  and Gaston Place Drive (Wellington to North Hampton)
• Tuesday, July 5, Great Hills Country Club, 5914 Lost Horizon Dr. Street covered: Lost Horizon (Pathfinder to Rain Creek)
• Wednesday, July 6, Asbury United Methodist Church, 1605 E 38th 1/2 St. Street covered: Cherrywood Road (Manor to 38 1/2)