Editor Note: This article was sent to us by Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Austin, which was written for the Southwest Cycling New, the monthly newspaper of the Austin Cycling Association. She heads the Bike/Ped section of the Public Works Department and works with her staff to implement the Master Bicycle [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bicycle lanes’
BAC meeting allows venting over last minute Master Plan changes, introduction of new bike lane installation process
Members of the Bicycle Advisory Council vented their frustration with City Bike/Ped staff last night at the lack of notice given for last minute changes to the Master Bike Plan adopted by the Austin City Council in June. The changes were made just days before the Council adopted the final plan, and while they were [...]
New Bike Lanes from 38th-45th on Medical Parkway
Last week I was sent an email from Austin Bike Blog reader Joseph, about new bicycle lanes from 38th to 45th on Medical Parkway. I walked this stretch of Medical Parkway on Wednesday, and took a few photos of this new bicycle route, along with sending an inquiry in to the city about them. According [...]
News flash: Bike Lanes make the road safer for cyclists
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 [...]
Useless bike lanes – can’t we get them where we actually need them?
This weekend, I was walking around south congress while waiting for my bicycle to be worked on at Tsumani Cycles (hi guys!) when I walked by some of the side streets and saw this wonderful bicycle lane. Wonderfully bad, that is. First, this is a neighborhood street, that doesn’t have very much traffic on it, [...]
