Posts Tagged ‘cycling’

For over three decades, Austin developers and citizens have been dreaming up something big for the Waller Creek corridor, the area along Waller Creek downtown from Lady Bird Lake up to the University of Texas campus, and it looks like things are finally rolling.
According the City of Austin official page on the project, urban planning [...]

Urban planning blog Sprawled Out reported this week on a very interesting controversy going on in Saratoga Springs, New York. Cycling or walking to school has been illegal there since 1994, but some parents are challenging the rule:
From the Saratogian, via the NRDC blog:
SARATOGA SPRINGS — While hundreds of area workers pedaled their way to [...]

From our Weekly Events Calendar:
Mellow Johnny’s Tour de France Launch Party
Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop, 400 Nueces St.
6pm-11pm, Sunday July 5
This event will celebrate the start of the 96th Tour in our parking lot with family activities, contests, raffles, and a viewing of Stage 1 on the big screen provided by Alamo Drafthouse. They hope to [...]

These graphics should be familiar to anyone who has been to presentations on global warming in the past year or two, but it’s worth showing this updated version.
CNT (the Center for Neighborhood Technology) has a new site highlighting CO2 emissions for many regions of the country both per acre and per household. For example, here’s [...]

Searching through Google news these past two or three days, I’ve come across a TON of mentions of the City of Austin Bike Sharing program. Kudos to them so far on the initial interest and coverage and let’s all hope this will translate into enthusiastic usage of the program.

The Caffeinated Cyclist
North Loop Neighborhoods
KVUE
KEYE
Greater City: Providence
NPR
Fox [...]

OK, this is one… huge… slideshow. I took photos at the Enchanted Rock Extreme Duathlon on Sunday and culled my 450 photographs down to 300, which you see here. This should feature every single participant in the cycling portion of the event. Elliott will provide his thoughts on the event soon.
See yourself in one of [...]

Very rough notes taken as fast as I could, sorry about any typos, but wanted to get this out as fast as possible. – Marcus
Bethel Hall, St. David’s Episcopal Church, 7th and San Jacinto. 6pm-9pm
Candidates present – Brewster McCracken, Lee Leffingwell, David Buttross, Josiah Ingalls
Big crowd. Easily over 100. This is an extremely successful forum, [...]

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 [...]

You may have noticed some changes in the upper right corner of our site today. We’ve added three more links in addition to our usual RSS Feed and Email digest options!
Twitter: yes we semi-old fogies have finally gotten on Twitter. Follow us for updates on rides and events along with news and other tidbits.
Facebook group: [...]

Momentum magazine is putting on a very open-ended contest. They want to hear about your “real life on a bike,” and the winner wins the Wald bag and basket to the right.
So, if you have the urge for shameless self-promotion, wanna see your mug in Momentum, and need a new basket, enter their contest here. [...]