The City of Austin is moving away from traditional parking meters for on street parking to electronic kiosks, but fortunately for cyclists, more bike racks are being installed to replace the lost parking meters.
The system offers the advantage of letting people pay by credit card as well as cash, varying rates by time, higher revenue [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bike rack’
Electronic kiosk parking going in downtown, more bike racks on the way
Let your old bike parts become part of a downtown landmark
This fall, the Downtown Austin Alliance chose three artists to produce sculptures to be installed on Congress Avenue that will also serve as bike racks for the community (Download the really big PDF of all the designs here.) With the possible elimination of thousands of de facto bike racks downtown in the near future, this [...]
Another option for turning meter posts into bike parking
Yesterday, Marcus wrote about the plan the City of Austin has to replace all the meters downtown with electronic kiosks and how this will eliminate thousands of de facto bike parking racks.
This story was picked up today by Streetsblogs, a transportation network we are a part of, with this picture below where meter posts were [...]
Thousands of (bicycle) parking spaces going away? What to do?
Austin has several thousand parking meters, which are set to be replaced over the next couple of years by electronic parking kiosks at each block of metered spaces. At least, this is the latest news. A quick search through the City of Austin shows that this has been talked about for nearly twelve years. But [...]
TARC Bike Rack Video
This is terrific!
Read more about it here.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Faustinontwowheels.org%2F2008%2F12%2F09%2Ftarc-bike-rack-video%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘TARC+Bike+Rack+Video’;
addthis_pub = ”;
Dumbest Product of the Week- 3rd Edition, Bontrager Carbon Fiber Seatpost Rack
We are back with another edition of Dumbest Product of the Week. Last week and the week before we got started with some really silly cycling products and while I don’t want to limit this series to just bike stuff, I could not resist nominating our next product.
It seems the folks over at Trek aren’t [...]
Change is coming
I just took this picture of the bike rack at my office when I arrived at 10 am.
When I began commuting by bicycle two years ago, many days I had the rack to myself. Now the demand is so high, our landlord doubled the number of racks and it’s still full every day. I think [...]
