If you work in the Austin cycling community, or, I would presume, an affiliated organization, the City of Austin would like to meet with you and get your feedback regarding an educational campaign they are starting. Here’s the full email, forwarded to us by the ever-stalwart Leslie Luciano of Bicycle Sport Shop (she now of [...]
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KVUE succeeds in its hit on the cycling community
Or how to report the story you want instead of the facts On Monday, I reported on an alleged crackdown that APD was doing on cyclists who run stop signs. It had become quite the hot topic over the weekend on the forums at Bicycle Austin. Several cyclists chimed in on getting ticketed and the [...]
Careful when you glide through that stop sign, it may cost you over $150
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 [...]
Did you see this car/bike collision May 4th on South Congress?
This story has been circulating on local bike mailing lists and was covered by KEYE a couple of days ago: An Austin bicyclist seriously injured in an accident is taking action against the Austin Police Department. This, after he found out the officers who responded to the scene did not file an accident report. On [...]
March Critical Mass Ride Ends with tickets, arrests
After a long string of Critical Mass rides without major encounter with police, Austin Police were out in force on Friday arresting and ticketing Critical Massers for running red lights and “obstructing traffic.” Here’s a video encounter of APD arresting local cyclist and budding frame builder Nathaniel “Lurcher” Hill. So a car runs a red [...]
Look out for this stolen bike if you can
Our good friend Karl-Thomas Musselman over at political site Burnt Orange Report lives carfree and recently had his bike stolen. We’re hoping he can still get it back. Description follows. My blue/black Trek 3700 that I bought back in 2004 and have put a few thousand miles on probably, was stolen from 902 E 5th [...]
APD Chief Art Acevedo speaks at ACA
Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo spoke and answered questions before a large audience at the Austin Cycling Association meeting last night. Before we talk about the rest, let’s get the Austin Police Chief’s “big faux pas” out of the way: In the middle of a really long answer about sharing the road, APD Chief [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 2/26- 3/4/09
We are up one event over last week for a total of 85 cycling events this week in the Austin area. Our comprehensive cycling and bike culture event calendar has slowed in growth a bit the last week, but I prefer to think we are taking a breather before spring comes roaring in. As always, [...]
APD arrests alleged bike thief
James Clayton’s home raided by police for stolen bike parts Jason at ATXBS has broken a story about the police raid and arrest of James Clayton, a local Austin cyclists that has been accused of rampant bike theft. The Travis County Sheriff’s Booking Records indicate that Clayton is being charged with 2nd Degree felony for [...]
APD denying any crackdown on cyclists ever happened
In interesting e-mail from Austin cyclist Tom Wald is circulating about the Austin Police Department and their much reported crackdown on cyclists who break traffic laws. Tom wrote the police department a letter criticizing the program for singling out cyclists when motorists cause the vast majority of accidents that involve injury and deaths. Regardless of [...]
