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 [...]
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Austin City Council Cycling Forum – Place 1 rough transcript
Candidates present: Chris Riley, Perla Cavazos Opening statements: Cavazos – I’m a triathlete. Hope to do the MS150 someday. Very supportive of multimodal transportation options and cycling. We need to do a better job of improving our city streets and adding bicycle lanes. Would also like to see better signage and education about sharing the [...]
Austin City Council cycling forum – Mayoral candidate rough transcript
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 [...]
Get thee to the City Council Cycling Forum!
Reprinted from a League of Bicycling Voters email. This is your chance to tell your next city council members that you want safe cycling to be a priority, and find out where they stand on our issues. Want to make an impression? The best way to advance safer and more accessible bicycling in Austin is [...]
Bicycle Advisory Council Notes, 1-15-09
Jason at ATXBS has a very good synopsis of several things that were discussed at the BAC Thursday night, including the upcoming funding of bike boxes in test locations (yay!), the Austin Bicycle Plan being almost ready for a review (having an open house for comments on March 9 was tentatively discussed, sign our petition [...]
