Posts Tagged ‘bike lanes’

This 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

“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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]