Posts Tagged ‘Austin City Council’

The Austin City Council election is coming up on May 14, and with so many bike projects potentially in the works in the coming years, it will be an important election for Austin cyclists. Today, the League of Bicycling Voters announced its endorsements: Place 1: The LOBV enthusiastically supports Chris Riley. In Place 1, Chris [...]

Thanks to everyone to called and wrote to the Austin City Council to voice concern about the calendar games being played with the Downtown Bicycle Boulevard briefing and to ask for public comment on the staff recommendations. I just heard from Rob D’Amico, President of the League of Bicycling Voters, that Councilmembers Chris Riley and [...]

UPDATE: An A2W reader sent me an e-mail asking me to clarify a point in this post. The decision to put items on the City Council agenda is done at a managerial level above the City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program. ——- In a move reminiscent of some of the slimier actions taken by [...]

This week’s Austin City Council meeting will include a vote on a resolution instructing the City Manager to put together a ciclovía in Austin as part of the 2010 Bike Month activities. For those unfamiliar with the concept, ciclovía are where cities shut down street corridors to all automobile traffic for a half to full [...]

Yesterday, the Austin City Council passed the so called Safe Passing Ordinance. The law requires motorists to provide at least 3 feet and trucks to provide at least 6 feet of room when passing “vulnerable road users.” Cyclist are included in this list of users. In addition, the Council passed an ordinance a ban on [...]

Item 30 on the Austin City Council agenda for this Thursday’s meeting is the adoption of a Safe Passing ordinance for the City of Austin. The law would require cars and light trucks to provide at least three feet of passing room to so called “vulnerable road users.” Heavy trucks and commercial vehicles would have [...]

The Austin safe passing ordinance and texting while driving ban passed the City Council today on  a unanimous vote in support of the measure. Motorists in Austin will now be required to provide at least three feet of passing space between them and cyclists and pedestrians. Today, the Austin City Council unanimously passed a resolution [...]

On Thursday, the Austin City Council will be considering passage of our own local safe passing law. The proposed Council action is as follows: A safe passing law requiring motorists to give bicyclists at least three feet of clearance when passing. (The ordinance will be based on Bike Texas’s legislation passed in the session but [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]