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 [...]
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Austin City Council Passes Safe Passing Ordinance
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 [...]
Safe Passing ordinance on City Council agenda for this week
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 [...]
Austin Safe Passing Ordinance Update: Ordinance resolution passes unanimously
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 [...]
Action Alert: Austin safe passing ordinance at risk, your action needed
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 vetoed [...]
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 second [...]
GO to this Thursday’s City Council meeting: bike plan on the agenda!
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 it [...]
Golf carts, Bike Plan at the UTC Tuesday
The golf cart taxi company Capital Cruisers will be on the agenda at the Urban Transportation Commission meeting on Tuesday. Our first story on this a few weeks ago has generated quite a bit of conversation between the golf cart proponents and pedicab drivers.
If you’re interested in coming and putting your two cents in on [...]
Austin City Council Cycling Forum – Place 1 rough transcript
Candidates present: Chris Riley, Perla Cavazos
Opening statements:
Cavazos – I’m a triathlete. Hope to do the MS150 someday. Very supportive of multimodal transportation options and cycling. We need to do a better job of improving our city streets and adding bicycle lanes. Would also like to see better signage and education about sharing the road but [...]
Get thee to the City Council Cycling Forum!
Reprinted from a League of Bicycling Voters email. This is your chance to tell your next city council members that you want safe cycling to be a priority, and find out where they stand on our issues.
Want to make an impression?
The best way to advance safer and more accessible bicycling in Austin is to show [...]
