The City of Austin is getting ready to paint new bike lanes all over town, and the League of Bicycling Voters is encouraging participation in City hosted open houses around town to ensure good facilities get built. In many cases, these new lanes will entail the removal of a limited number of current on street [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bike lanes’
London looks to give the bike an advantage over cars with bicycle super-highways
Will the bicycle super-highways give bikes the edge on the Thames? After London made headlines by being the first major city to charge a tax on cars entering the city, the English capital is looking to get serious about promoting the bicycle as a legitimate, mainstream choice with a new network of bicycle super-highways planned. [...]
Want more people on bikes? Infrastructure is key
Numbers from New York City should be death knell to vehicular cycling policies The New York City Department of Transportation recently released its 2009 Sustainable Streets Index report with the most definitive proof yet that good cycling infrastructure is a huge part of getting people to use bicycles as an alternative to cars. The report [...]
Vehicular cycling versus bike lanes: why they are both right, both wrong and why bike boulevards matter
Thoughts on where we’ve been and where we are going ahead of tonight’s Bike Boulevard Open House 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 numbers [...]
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 [...]
City Staff on DIY Bike Lanes: Leave the painting to the professionals
Over 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 [...]
