Thoughts on where we’ve been and where we are going ahead of tonight’s Bike Boulevard Open House
a href=”http://austinontwowheels.org/2009/12/02/your-voice-needed-at-upcoming-nueces-bike-boulevard-open-houses/” target=”_blank”>As Austin prepares to experiment with the concept of bicycle boulevards, it is important to remember where bicycle infrastructure has been and why bike boulevards are really important in the goal of creating a city where large [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bike lanes’
Vehicular cycling versus bike lanes: why they are both right, both wrong and why bike boulevards matter
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 [...]
City open house on bike lanes on West 6th tonight!
Tonight, the City of Austin will be holding an open house for feedback on plans for adding a bike lane on West 6th Street between Lamar and Patterson. Rob D’Amico from the League of Bicycling Voters has indicated some of the merchants in the area are trying to block the plan because 8, count ‘em, [...]
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 [...]
KVUE “investigates” guerrilla bike lanes that don’t exist
At KVUE, ratings trump community good and a little things like the facts
On Tuesday, we published a statement from city staff asking cyclists to refrain from making their own bike lanes with paint. This statement was in response to some online musings about doing DIY lanes similar to those done in Los Angeles.
Seeing another [...]
City Staff on DIY Bike Lanes: Leave the painting to the professionals
ver at the Bicycle Austin forum e-mail list, a poster recently suggested some guerrilla street painting to carve out space for cyclists on Austin streets specifically on parts of Parmer Lane and along the IH-35 access road. The post was in response to a recent Bicycling magazine article about a group in Los Angeles that [...]
Portland Construction Company sets up temporary bike only lanes during projects
his a happens almost every day in our city. You’re cruising along one of Austin’s bike lanes, and Bam! you’ve go to stop or quickly (and dangerously) merge into traffic because your bike lane has been taken over by construction work. Whether its road work, which seems reasonable and is often well marked with warning [...]
Signs of new bike infrastructure popping up in South Austin
With all the hub-hub about the Master Bike Plan in the last month, it’s easy to forget that the Bicycle/Pedestrian folks in the City Public Works Department are tirelessly working little by little each day to make our city more bicycle friendly and walkable.
Recently, I’ve been helping Austin CarShare get caught up on service of [...]
Bicycle News Roundup, 2/16/09
Rob D’Amico writes in support of the Lady Bird Lake Hike & Bike Trail extension at the Bicycle Austin Blog. We will have a bit on this soon too.
The blog for cleaning product Grease Monkey Wipes posted a bit about Lance’s bike being stolen, just as we did on Sunday. Anyone else quite surprised that [...]
