Throughout most of Austin, the Austin Master Bicycle Plan marches forward with new bike lanes added monthly as major neighborhood streets are paved. While there has been great progress, there is a potential setback on Cherrywood Road in the Cherrywood neighborhood. The Master Bicycle Plan calls for eventually no vehicle parking in bike lanes throughout [...]
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Friday Film Fun: Contraflow Cycle Path
Much is brewing with the Downtown Bicycle Boulevard, formerly know as the Nueces Bicycle Boulevard, and I will be writing more about that in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to share this great StreetFilms video from Washington DC where traffic engineers took a formerly 4 lane one-way road and gave it a [...]
Bike Lanes to be added to Dean Keaton
The Austin American Statesman is reporting that the City of Austin will be converting parking along Dean Keaton north of the UT Law School to back in parking shrinking the road from 6 lanes of traffic to 4 and adding a bike lane each way. Back in parking requires the driver to go past the [...]
Bikes lanes on Red River? It could happen.
It’s not official or a done deal by any means, but let’s just say the odds of getting bike lanes on Red River are looking good right now. City staff has been working behind the scenes with the Downtown Austin Plan staff to see what they can do to provide for all kinds of cyclists [...]
