Posts under ‘Safety’

If you’ve ever wanted to brush up on your bike safety but cannot swing the time for the full Traffic 101 classes offered by the Austin Cycling Association, here’s your chance to pick and choose the portions you need help with in bit sized amounts. ACA will be offering Traffic Skills 101 Mini Clinics starting [...]

Lane Wimberley from the League of Bicycling Voters attended last night’s CAMPO meeting where the board decided whether or not to fund some critical bike infrastructure to improve safety and accessibility for Austin cyclists. Lane reported back with this mixed report on the meeting:
The CAMPO Transportation Policy Board met last night to (among other things) [...]

This evening, the board of CAMPO (Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) will meet to approve implementation of several road projects in the Austin area. Included in these are improvements to the Highway 183 and 360 area (near the Arboretum). The current plan for this intersection goes against staff recommendations and eliminates proper bike infrastructure facilitating [...]

Seattle Bike Supply working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a voluntary recall of their 2010 Redline Conquest Pro cyclocross bike.
The bicycle’s fork legs can separate from the fork crown and cause the rider to lose control, posing a risk of serious injury if the rider falls.
The firm is aware of three reports [...]

Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world
With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% of [...]

Thoughts on where we’ve been and where we are going ahead of tonight’s Bike Boulevard Open House
a href=”http://austinontwowheels.org/2009/12/02/your-voice-needed-at-upcoming-nueces-bike-boulevard-open-houses/” target=”_blank”>As Austin prepares to experiment with the concept of bicycle boulevards, it is important to remember where bicycle infrastructure has been and why bike boulevards are really important in the goal of creating a city where large [...]

This Thursday, BikeTexas is putting together packages benefiting bicycle/motorist safety education programs and Safe Routes to School. They need to be mailed to government offices all over Texas, and Bike Texas needs a hand getting them all done. They will also continue to do data entry on the Safe Passing petition signatures. Free dinner will [...]

Recently, the New York City cycling advocacy group Biking Rules had a bike safety PSA contest to come up with more creative way to inform cyclists how to be safe on the road. There were three 30 second spot winners that were pretty good, but I have to say I’m a big fan of the [...]

In a followup to yesterday’s post about creating a Nueces Street Bike Boulevard and next Wednesday’s design open house, StreetFilms just released this great video of what makes bike boulevards work and the idea of creating living streets, streets for people instead of streets for cars.

Also included was a link to a guide book for [...]

Nadia Barrera from the City of Austin Bicycle/Pedestrian Program has alerted us to some upcoming open houses on designing a proposed bike boulevard on Nueces Street. If you are not familiar with the concept, bike boulevards are on-street bike routes that either prohibit car traffic or limit it to slow, local only traffic with the [...]