From BikeTexas: *Action Alert* *Safe Passing* ACTION ALERT: GOVERNOR PLANS TO VETO SAFE PASSING BILL TODAY Forward this email to every cyclist you know! Dear Fellow Texas Cyclists, Every cyclist in Texas must call Governor Perry today and insist that he allow SB 488 to pass! The governor mistakenly thinks that the bill puts all [...]
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Safe Passing Bill Clears Legislature, Heads to Governor for signature
BikeTexas is reporting that the Safe Passing Bill passed both the Texas House and Senate in the last 24 hours and is headed to the Governor’s desk for signature. The final version of the Safe Passing Bill, SB 488, was passed yesterday by the Texas House. Today, the Senate voted on it, and overwhelmingly voted [...]
Good food and LOTS of cyclists at Bike To Work Day ’09
How did you feel about Bike To Work Day 2009? From what I saw it was VERY busy at all the stations in the downtown area. Since I work at home, I didn’t have anywhere in particular to go so I followed the lead of Eileen and just rode around to a few stations to [...]
Texas slides 6 places in ’09 Bike Friendly State Rankings
Just out today are the 2009 rankings from the League of American Bicyclists, and the news isn’t good for our state. Last year, we were ranked 30th by their measures of “bike friendliness” and now we’re down to 36th. Ouch. From the LAB website, a description of the rankings: The Bicycle Friendly State Program is [...]
Safe Passing Bill Passes in Texas Senate
The Bicycle Sport Shop blog is reporting that the Texas Senate passed the Safe Passing bill on a 28-2 vote. The bill requires driver to give 3 feet distance to cyclists when passing and has been the main legislative objective of BikeTexas this session. The bill had been stuck in committee due to long, drawn [...]
Safe Passing bill delayed but making progress
As we reported last week, the Texas Senate hearing on the 2009 Safe Passing Act was postponed due to the big voter ID bill blowup. When it is rescheduled, we’ll let you know. The Texas Bicycle Coalition wants to encourage you to participate in their ‘Cyclists in Suits‘ event on April 20. This is not [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/19-3/25/09
Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your [...]
Testify in support of the Safe Passing Bill this Wednesday
The following information has been passed along to us from Rob D’Amico from the League of Bicycling Voters about this critical legislation. The 2009 Safe Passing Act, Senate Bill SB 488 will be heard by the Texas State Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security on Wednesday morning, March 11, 2009 in Hearing Room E1.016 [...]
Austin Bike Culture Events: 1/29- 2/4/08
Who says Austin doesn’t have a vibrant bike culture? There are 50, count ‘em 50 events on our comprehensive calendar of Austin cycling events this week. That means there is on average a cycling related event every 3 1/2 hours in Austin. And it’s not even spring yet! We can’t list them all here, so [...]
Shifting Gears Luncheon, Part 2
So I just got back from the Shifting Gears bike ride sponsored by BikeTexas. It involved a ride around downtown to look at the bike infrastructure that is or will soon be built. About 50 cyclists joined in with everyone from spandexed roadies to plain clothed hybrid riders. I had a chance to talk briefly [...]
