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ACA to offer Fun Size Traffic Skills 101 Mini Clinics, Jan 25th, 2010If 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 [...]
Mixed bag on bike infrastructure from CAMPO meeting, Jan 21st, 2010Lane 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 recalls Redline Conquest Pro, Jan 13th, 2010Seattle 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 [...]
Latest Route Reviews
November Update from City of Austin on bike infrastructure improvements, Nov 19th, 2009Sharrows, bike boxes now installed and being tested in Austin
Editor Note: As an update to the passage of the Master Bike Plan, Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of Austin in Department of Public Works, has [...]
From Nadia Barrera at the City of Austin’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Program:
The bridge over Shoal Creek at 3rd Street will be closed from Monday 11/9/09 to Friday 11/13/09. The project team will be providing a connection to a 72” water line that runs directly adjacent to the bridge.
Those with questions or concerns can contact Barrera at (512) [...]
I recently got an e-mail from Heather Herrick, the author of the local triathlon blog Windy Possibilities. She wanted to let people know that Anderson Lane has been resurfaced and bikes lanes added.
From today’s post:
Today was my first day to ride on Anderson Lane. They resurfaced and restriped Anderson and they put in a new [...]
The Austin American Statesman is reporting that the City of Austin will be converting parking along Dean Keaton north of the UT Law School to back in parking shrinking the road from 6 lanes of traffic to 4 and adding a bike lane each way. Back in parking requires the driver to go past the [...]
Route Report: Shoal Creek Bridge at 3rd closed this week, Jul 21st, 2009The Bike/Ped Divison over at the City of Austin sent over this closure announcement regarding the 3rd Street Hike and Bike bridge over Shoal Creek:
To Shoal Creek Trail users:
There will be a full trail closure sometime this week (the week of July 20th) on the 3rd Street Bridge over Shoal Creek for the installation of [...]
