Posts Tagged ‘Austin Bike Plan Petition’

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.
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Marcus and I are leaving the electronic world for the airways today with a guest appearance today at noon on the ANC Radio show on KOOP, 91.7 FM. The theme of the show is “What’s Austin’s Two Wheel Plan”, and we’ll be joined by City of Austin Bicycle Program Manager Annick Beaudet and Urban Transportation [...]

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.
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The City of Austin has released a draft of its 2020 Bicycle Master Plan. This is the first update to the City’s bike plan since 1998. City staff will be having an open house to answer questions and get feedback:
Bicycle Master Plan Open House
Wednesday. March 4
5:30- 8 PM
One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Rd, 3rd [...]

“New mobility aims towards a human system. Old mobility aims at a car system.” Eric Britton, New Mobility Agenda
Streetsblog posted a great video at the end of last week that covers many of the innovative things being done in Paris (France, not Texas) to make streets safer and more accessible to cyclists and pedestrians alike.
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On Friday, I attended a standing room only City Forum Panel on Bicycle Research sponsored by the Community and Regional Planning Student Organization at the Texas Union on the UT campus. The forum included an interesting report from the Center for Transportation Research as well as an update on the progress toward adopting a new City of [...]

This article is part of a series Austin Bike Blog is doing on the recently launched Austin Bike Plan Petition. The City of Austin is preparing the first update to its Bicycle Plan in twelve years, and Austin Bike Plan Petition is an attempt to get the best plan possible. Over the next few weeks we [...]

Austin Bike Plan Petition calls for clear time lines for implementation, better bike facilities
 The cycling community in Austin at a cross roads right now, and Marcus and I believe cyclists are in a unique position to ensure the City of Austin makes biking for transportation a priority and builds the necessary infrastructure to support this [...]