Austin on Two Wheels has already recommended you get out to vote FOR Proposition #1, but the League of Bicycling Voters is making doing your civic duty a little more fun with a ride to vote this Thursday followed by the annual LOBV member party. Ride to Rally the Vote FOR Proposition 1 Time: Thursday, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bicycle infrastructure’
Bicycle Boulevard Update: Monday night planning meeting report
Editor Note: This Monday, City staff had a planning meeting to discuss implementation of the adopted plan for a downtown bicycle boulevard. Many in the cycling community missed this important meeting (including myself unfortunately), but Bicycle Advisory Council and LOBV board member Eileen Schaubert was there and made this report. Monday night’s Bike Boulevard meeting [...]
TXDOT asking for feedback from cyclists to improve state roads
The Texas Transportation Institute is currently conducting a survey funded by TXDOT involving state roads in the Austin District. This survey is an attempt to address the needs of cyclists on state roads and see what changes could be made to make the roads safe for both children and adults on bikes. You can provide [...]
Mixed bag on bike infrastructure from CAMPO meeting
Lane Wimberley from the League of Bicycling Voters attended last night’s CAMPO meeting where the board decided whether or not to fund some critical bike infrastructure to improve safety and accessibility for Austin cyclists. Lane reported back with this mixed report on the meeting: The CAMPO Transportation Policy Board met last night to (among other [...]
CAMPO plan dumps bike infrastructure at 183 & 360
This evening, the board of CAMPO (Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) will meet to approve implementation of several road projects in the Austin area. Included in these are improvements to the Highway 183 and 360 area (near the Arboretum). The current plan for this intersection goes against staff recommendations and eliminates proper bike infrastructure facilitating [...]
Movie Review: Beauty and the Bike
Summary: Documenting an experiment with the effects of social cycling on bike use in young women from Darlington, England, Beauty and the Bike shows a compelling vision of how attainable a cycling culture can be with the right equipment, social network, and basic bicycle infrastructure like bike lanes and paths. Beauty and the Bike Darlington [...]
Yet more great new bike infrastructure ideas from Copenhagen
Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% [...]
Wanting more cyclists on the road? Look to what women want
A recent Scientific American article suggests that if we want to get serious about getting more people riding bikes for transportation we need to focus on the needs of one group in particular: women. The article quotes several reports that show cities and countries with high bicycle usage also have a near equal male/female usage [...]
From the Department of the Obvious: Study finds bike lanes, paths increase safety
BikePortland recently reported on a study published in Environmental Health that aggregated the results of 23 recent English language reports on bicycle crash data. In contrast to what some (including the [update] former Dallas Bike Coordinator) say, the report found that bicycle infrastructure such as bike lanes and bike paths were safer for cyclists than [...]
Bike Infrastructure: What we can learn from Seattle
Over the July 4th holiday, I visited Seattle to see some family, but I also took my travel bike with me to get in some riding and test the new Versa Shifters for internal hub (review coming later this week.) Now that I have been back in Austin for a few weeks, I’ve reflected on [...]
