APD decides to start targeted cracking down on bicyclists without warning Back in March, APD Chief Art Acevedo addressed the Austin Cycling Association in an attempt to “reach out” to the cycling community and hear our concerns. The general consensus from the meeting was that he got a lot of tough questions and handled them [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2009 Bicycle Master Plan’
Signs of new bike infrastructure popping up in South Austin
With all the hub-hub about the Master Bike Plan in the last month, it’s easy to forget that the Bicycle/Pedestrian folks in the City Public Works Department are tirelessly working little by little each day to make our city more bicycle friendly and walkable. Recently, I’ve been helping Austin CarShare get caught up on service [...]
Austin City Council Passes Master Bike Plan on 6-0 vote
Thursday night, the Austin City Council voted 6-0 (Councilmember Sheryl Cole was not in attendance) to adopt the 2009 Master Bike Plan. This was a great victory for the cycling community. We have a very well written, ambitious plan and now comes the hard part: ensuring all the stuff in the plan actually gets done. [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 6/11- 6/17/09
Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your event on and [...]
City Council Action on the Master Bike Plan, Part Deux
Due to a technical snafu, the Austin City Council was not able to vote on the 2009 Austin Master Bike Plan when the plan was presented at the May 21 meeting. Instead, the plan is scheduled to be voted on this Thursday. While there was overwhelming support for the plan at the last meeting, this [...]
