Posts Tagged ‘infrastructure’

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 [...]

At last night’s Bicycle Advisory Council meeting, I was informed that the city has gotten over 50 very good responses to this urgent request, but they would still like more! This is a great chance to make yourself heard and have an impact on bike safety here in Austin. Because this is so important, I’m [...]

What I’ve seen in the past week that I wanted to share with Austin Bike Blog readers:
Brain Pickings, a side which focuses on “brilliant ideas” has an interesting post about bike culture innovations. A couple of the ideas are pretty good. Unfortunately, two of them are also on our Dumbest Product of the Week list.
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There’s some really great cycling news out there, the national stimulus package notwithstanding (although having $10 billion for transit in there can’t be all bad, can it?). Here’s what I’ve found in the past week and wanted to share:

Treehugger has a great roundup of their own showcasing innovations in bicycle infrastructure around the world of [...]

Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager for the City of Austin, was nice enough to answer some interview questions for us. We think she is doing a great job, and wanted to give her an opportunity to talk directly to the cycling community on some issues that are important to all of us. Here’s what [...]

A couple of things I wanted to tell everyone about: First, Austin Bike Blog joined the Streetsblog Network a month or so ago, which is “a national blog network focused on sustainable transport, smart growth and livable streets issues.” They have officially launched now, and already have 160 member blogs. We’re very happy to be [...]

This weekend, I was walking around south congress while waiting for my bicycle to be worked on at Tsumani Cycles (hi guys!) when I walked by some of the side streets and saw this wonderful bicycle lane. Wonderfully bad, that is. First, this is a neighborhood street, that doesn’t have very much traffic on it, [...]

A friend here in the office alerted me to this story on our local Fox affiliate (channel 7), which looks like almost nothing more than an outright attack on austin cyclists. Well, I would guess it’s about 95% attack on cyclists, 1% reminder to drivers to “share the road” and about 4% lamentation on the [...]