Posts Tagged ‘austin bike plan’

Things have slowed down a little going into the Memorial Day holiday, but there are still lots of cycling things to do. Be sure to come out to support the Master Bicycle Plan at the City Council meeting tonight and head over to the Yellow Bike Project 12th Birthday Party afterwards. Here’s a quick run [...]

From the Yellow Bike Project: This Thursday, May 21st, Austin City Council will hold a public hearing on the 2009 update to Austin’s Bicycle Master Plan.  The update outlines a long-term strategy for making cycling a safer and more viable mode of transportation in Austin.  We need to be there, because those who are against [...]

There are four more opportunities to put in your two cents’ worth on the Austin Bike Plan before it becomes THE LAW. You can look at our full calendar for more details along the way but this is what’s left: April 14: The plan will be considered for recommendation by the Urban Transportation Commission April [...]

I came across this story from a Wisconsin Fox affiliate about one of their photojournalists who is a cyclists and decided to start video taping his rides so police would believe him when he claimed motorists were acting aggressively. He was successful in getting a motorist ticketed in one instance but had the police try to [...]

Dialectica is a radio show on KVRX, the student radio at UT, produced by students that are part of the LBJ School Sustainability Working Group. The show examines the civic, political, and economic issues that matter to us all on global, national, and local levels.  Recently the show has focused on cycling issues in Austin including this week’s [...]

Via the Bicycle Austin Blog (revived recently by Rob D’Amico of the League of Bicycling Voters) and ATXBS, there is some very good coverage of Downtown Planning process, along with links to the plan framework documents broken up by section. Go read it, if you have nothing else to do for the next several hours. [...]