Thanks to Bicycle Sport Shop’s Leslie Luciano for sending over this revised, texas-focused release about the 2009 National Bike Summit!
Record Number Attended 2009 Bike Summit!
In total, 580 registrants from 47 states and four countries (Canada, Denmark, Czech Republic and the USA) visited more than 350 Congressional offices on Thursday, March 12. More than a hundred [...]
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Texas Advocates Attend National Bike Summit
San Francisco considers banning most auto traffic on Market Street
San Francisco’s board of supervisors are seriously considering making Market Street nearly a completely pedestrian and cyclist-focused street. This would be roughly equivalent to us making Congress between the river and the capitol building carfree, or Guadalupe between MLK and 30th or so.
Quoting today’s story in the San Francisco Chronicle:
“Having been a [...]
Will Obama’s Secretary of Transportation Choice be Good for Bikes and Transit?
Speculation abounds: who will be Barack Obama’s Transportation Secretary Choice? It’s far too early to really know, but we’re hoping here at Austin Bike Blog that the next Secretary of Transportation has a much better view of transit, pedestrian, and bicycle infrastructure than our current one.
The current Secretary of Transportation in the Bush Administration, Mary [...]
