Bike Month is less than 60 days away, and the newly created Austin Bike Poster Show is looking for artists to submit their take on promoting cycling and celebrating Austin bike culture. The show will select 25 posters to be part of the show which will run May 6- June 5 at Frame Corner at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program’
APD Chief Acevedo returns for second forum with the cycling community
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 [...]
Massive turnout by cycling community at Third Nueces Street Bike Boulevard Open House
Opposition to Bike Boulevard shown to be loud but not deep
In the largest turnout to date, the City of Austin held its third and final open house on a proposal for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street downtown. City staff estimated a total of 500 people attended the meeting while over 300 of these [...]
City of Austin provides update on Pfluger extension, other projects
Member and alternate slots opens up on BAC
This morning, Nadia Barrera from the Bicycle/Pedestrian Program at the City of Austin sent out the update below on upcoming projects for the year including these drawings for the much anticipated completion of the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge extension over Cesar Chavez. In addition to these projects, the City [...]
City Bike-Ped staff commission committee to hammer out compromise on Nueces Bike Boulevard
A model process for the future or the Son of Shoal Creek?
This week, City staff from the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program will begin convening a steering committee with the goal of creating a compromise solution on what has turned out to be a contentious proposal for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard. The committee will be made [...]
Ten biggest stories of 2009 in Austin cycling
2009 was a momentous year for cycling in Austin with several mile stones passed and the volume of people moving on two wheels growing. Here is a quick run down of what I think are the top ten Austin bike related stories in order of importance. If 2010 is anything like this year, Austin’s cycling [...]
Another local bike theft and the Copenhagen Wheel making theft a thing of the past
Earlier this week, we reported on the theft of We Robinson’s black Santa Cruz Tallboy. Unfortunately, we have to report another theft this time from City of Austin Bicycle Program staffer Nadia Barrera.
I got my bicycle stolen some time between 10:30 PM last [Monday] nightand 8:30 AM this morning. It has a black GT mountain [...]
First bike boulevard open house highlights tensions between cyclists and Nueces Street property owners
Last night, the City of Austin held the first of three design and feedback open houses for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard proposed for Nueces Street from 3rd Street to MLK, Jr Boulevard. The Nueces Street Bike Boulevard was part of the Master Bicycle Plan unanimously adopted by the Austin City Council in June.
During an introduction [...]
Fox 7 News looks at how easy is it to commute by bike in Austin
This recent local broadcast of Fox 7 News gives a quick overview of biking to work with resources from the City of Austin, Bicycle Sport Shop and Mellow Johnny’s. It’s a nice cursory look at biking as an option but does spend quite a bit of time focusing on showers. Also mentioned is the free [...]
Your voice needed at upcoming Nueces Bike Boulevard open houses
Nadia Barrera from the City of Austin Bicycle/Pedestrian Program has alerted us to some upcoming open houses on designing a proposed bike boulevard on Nueces Street. If you are not familiar with the concept, bike boulevards are on-street bike routes that either prohibit car traffic or limit it to slow, local only traffic with the [...]
