Posts Tagged ‘Chief Art Acevedo’

On Monday, March 7, the Austin Cycling Association will be hosting the third consecutive Annual Meeting with Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo and the Cycling Community. These have been extremely valuable forums to allow APD to get feedback from the cycling community and make appropriate changes in policies so cyclists are treated fairly by [...]

The weather outside may have been cold and stormy, but the reception from the cycling community to Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo was warm at last night’s forum at One Texas Center. The forum was a follow-up on last year’s meeting with the Chief, the first of its kind in Austin, and was sponsored [...]

Despite the snowfall this week, spring is right around the corner, and it shows with the plethora of activities this week. Tonight will be a fundraiser for Mariel Mentink who was hit by a car on New Years Eve while on Monday APD Chief Art Acevedo will be the guest of a forum on bike [...]

APD decides to start targeted cracking down on bicyclists without warning Back in March, APD Chief Art Acevedo addressed the Austin Cycling Association in an attempt to “reach out” to the cycling community and hear our concerns. The general consensus from the meeting was that he got a lot of tough questions and handled them [...]

After a long string of Critical Mass rides without major encounter with police, Austin Police were out in force on Friday arresting and ticketing Critical Massers for running red lights and “obstructing traffic.” Here’s a video encounter of APD arresting local cyclist and budding frame builder Nathaniel “Lurcher” Hill. So a car runs a red [...]

We are up one event over last week for a total of 85 cycling events this week in the Austin area. Our comprehensive cycling and bike culture event calendar has slowed in growth a bit the last week, but I prefer to think we are taking a breather before spring comes roaring in. As always, [...]