Posts Tagged ‘League of Bicycling Voters’

Tape your nose and get out your yellow jumps suit. The League of Bicycling Voters is back this week with their Bike-in Cinema fundraising series with Bottle Rocket Thursday evening at The Triangle. Admission is $2 and proceeds from the beer sales will go to the LOBV courtesy of New Belgium Brewery. Bring a blanket and a chair [...]

Last night, the League of Bicycling Voters had an organizational meeting to recommit to Austin cycling advocacy and build a stronger, professional organization. At the meeting were leaders from most of the larger cycling organizations in town including Austin Cycling Association, Austin Ridge Riders, Yellow Bike Project, and Bike Texas as well as community outreach [...]

The League of Bicycling Voters will have their first meeting is some time tomorrow night and now have the location, the Rio Grande Restaurant. Coming off their very well attended round table discussion with David Byrne and the hiring of a new Executive Director, Tom Wald, the LOBV is ready to get even more active [...]

Last night, musician, author, and urban cyclist David Byrne lead a round table discussion called Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around about urban cycling and how to plan for a city that puts people on bikes, transit, and on foot ahead of cars. Joining Byrne was League of Bicycling Voters President Rob D’Amico, City [...]

The League of Bicycling Voters recently sent out a newsletter with some interesting developments including the hiring of an Executive Director, Tom Wald. Tom is active in the cycling community serving on the City of Austin Bicycle Advisory Council as well as the person running Orange Bike. The hiring of a staff person shows the [...]

Reprint of LOBV email below. See the part about showing up to City Council hearing next week – it’s important!
First…We won! All of our endorsed candidates for Mayor and City Council won Saturday. In particular, thanks to all the LOBV members who helped out with or donated to the Chris Riley campaign. It was a [...]

Early Voting started today for the Saturday, May 9 Austin City Council Election. On the ballot are the Mayor’s race as well as five other council seats, an effective super majority of the council. With issues like passage of the new 2020 Master Bike Plan and more importantly ensuring it is fully funded coming in [...]

For everyone interested in reading more on the James Clayton bike theft saga, Rob D’Amico of the League of Bicycling Voters has an in-depth story on Clayton’s background, his operations and a lot more in this week’s Austin Chronicle. Highly recommended!

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Surely you are… aren’t you? Since I enrolled on Thursday, I have recorded 36 miles for 8 trips. Pretty easy to beat, right? The best member of the League of Bicycling Voters team is Tim Diller with 130 miles over 23 trips so far. Impressive.
Let me know how the rest of you are doing. If [...]

Local cycling advocacy group, the League of Bicycling Voters, released its list of endorsed candidates for the May 9th Austin City Council Election. There are not a lot of shockers here: 
Mayor: Lee Leffingwell
Place 1: Chris Riley
Place 2: Mike Martinez
Place 5: Bill Spelman
Place 6: Sheryl Cole
Bill Spelman is running unopposed and incumbents Cole & Martinez have token [...]