Posts Tagged ‘bike boulevard’

Make cycling faster than driving, and the masses will come If you’ve read this site much, you will know that I am a big proponent of bicycle infrastructure. I think our economic security and long term quality of life depends on shifting people away from the car-dependent, resource sucking lifestyle of the last 65 years. [...]

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 [...]

I don’t know if the summer heat is lulling drivers into a haze, but I’ve been hearing about a lot of crashes with automobiles and cyclists lately. First in a bizare twist, fellow blogger and road racer Daniel Satowas hit by a car this morning just 12 hours after his sister was in a auto [...]

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 [...]

One of the criticism hurled by the bike boulevard opposition is that the facility gives road space over to bikes at the expense of cars. Well, yeah. Creating great bike facilities is about getting people to change their transportation choices and what better way to do that than to elevate the desired choice of transportation? [...]

Last week, the City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program released its staff recommendations for a Downtown Bicycle Boulevard. The League of Bicycling Voters was critical of the proposal, especially the recommendations for Nueces Street. It has all the signs of compromise as the opposition to the bike boulevard also seems unhappy with the recommendations. [...]

League of Bicycling Voter’s President blasts City of watered down bike boulevard proposal Today, City staff will release the initial recommendation on Austin’s first bicycle boulevard, and League of Bicycling Voter President Rob D’Amico pulled no punches in his displeasure in the plan. “First they took the word ‘Nueces’ out and began calling it the [...]

Pro-business economist Angelos Angelou hired to do economic analysis Yesterday, the City of Austin put out a release announcing updates to the bicycle boulevard planning process. Noticably missing are now are the words Nueces Street. I drew some criticism by publishing a remark from un-named city staff about Nueces being dead, but it appears these [...]

Opposition to Bike Boulevard shown to be loud but not deep In the largest turnout to date, the City of Austin held its third and final open house on a proposal for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street downtown. City staff estimated a total of 500 people attended the meeting while over 300 of [...]