On my ride to work this morning, I discovered the bike lane going northbound on South Congress between Ben White and Woodward has reopened. The section in front of the SoCo lofts project has been closed for about two years while this development was being built. This meant you had to merge out into traffic [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bike lanes’
Did the Dallas Bicycle Coordinator lose his job?
Dallas moves forward with bike lanes as part of $375,000 “Complete Streets” Grant
Thanks to MtbLawGirl for alerting us to a story reported by TV 33 in Dallas about how the City of Dallas is moving forward on building bike lanes as part of a “Complete Streets” program. The City will be receiving a $375, 000 [...]
Making our streets places for humans, not just cars
“New mobility aims towards a human system. Old mobility aims at a car system.” Eric Britton, New Mobility Agenda
Streetsblog posted a great video at the end of last week that covers many of the innovative things being done in Paris (France, not Texas) to make streets safer and more accessible to cyclists and pedestrians alike.
The City [...]
Why Cycle Dallas will never get a link on our blogroll
Or, how bicycle advocates in Oak Cliff are trying to move Dallas up from the bottom of the pile when it comes to urban cycling
“As long as I’m the bike coordinator for the city, Dallas will never have on-street bike lanes.”
- PM Summer, Dallas Transportation Alternatives Coordinator/Effective Cycling Instructor
Earlier in the week when I was [...]
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 [...]
Fox News Austin: CYCLISTS ARE THE PROBLEM!
A friend here in the office alerted me to this story on our local Fox affiliate (channel 7), which looks like almost nothing more than an outright attack on austin cyclists. Well, I would guess it’s about 95% attack on cyclists, 1% reminder to drivers to “share the road” and about 4% lamentation on the [...]
