In June, cycling advocates from all over the world descended on Copenhagen for the Velo-City Global 2010 Conference. This offered a chance for folks to share what they’ve been doing to make transportation cycling safer and more accessible. It also provided Copenhagen as a venue for what can be done and how far a city [...]
Posts Tagged ‘League of Bicycling Voters’
Something in the water these days?
I don’t know if the summer heat is lulling drivers into a haze, but I’ve been hearing about a lot of crashes with automobiles and cyclists lately. First in a bizare twist, fellow blogger and road racer Daniel Satowas hit by a car this morning just 12 hours after his sister was in a auto [...]
Join LOBV and get a free tickets to our Taste of Downtown II Tour
If you’ve been thinking about supporting our local bicycle advocacy group, the League of Bicycling Voters, and haven’t gotten around to it, now’s your chance to support their great work and get a couple free spots on our Wednesday Taste of Downtown II bike tour. The next 5 people to join the LOBV at the [...]
Urban Transportation Commission next stop on the Bike Blvd Proposal
Last week, the City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program released its staff recommendations for a Downtown Bicycle Boulevard. The League of Bicycling Voters was critical of the proposal, especially the recommendations for Nueces Street. It has all the signs of compromise as the opposition to the bike boulevard also seems unhappy with the recommendations. [...]
LOBV’s D’Amico: City has removed the bicycle from bicycle boulevard
League of Bicycling Voter’s President blasts City of watered down bike boulevard proposal Today, City staff will release the initial recommendation on Austin’s first bicycle boulevard, and League of Bicycling Voter President Rob D’Amico pulled no punches in his displeasure in the plan. “First they took the word ‘Nueces’ out and began calling it the [...]
Massive turnout by cycling community at Third Nueces Street Bike Boulevard Open House
Opposition to Bike Boulevard shown to be loud but not deep In the largest turnout to date, the City of Austin held its third and final open house on a proposal for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street downtown. City staff estimated a total of 500 people attended the meeting while over 300 of [...]
Tonight the last in a series of open houses on the Nueces St Bicycle Boulevard
Nueces Bicycle Boulevard Open House #3 Wednesday, February 24 @ 6 PM Pease Elementary, 1106 Rio Grande St. Join Social Cycling ATX for a social ride and movie viewing party after the open house tonight! As the first major project in the new Austin Master Bicycle Plan, the City of Austin is considering creating the [...]
City Bike-Ped staff commission committee to hammer out compromise on Nueces Bike Boulevard
A model process for the future or the Son of Shoal Creek? This week, City staff from the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program will begin convening a steering committee with the goal of creating a compromise solution on what has turned out to be a contentious proposal for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard. The committee will be [...]
LOBV launches petition in support of Nueces St Bike Boulevard proposal
In early January, the League of Bicycling Voters put out a bike boulevard plan for Nueces Street as the cycling community’s best effort to create a true bike boulevard within some constrictions. The LOBV now has an online petition up where you can voice your support for this plan. It is important that the bike [...]
City offers more options, positions harden at second bike boulevard meeting
Last night, the City of Austin held its second in a three part series of open houses on the proposed bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street. While city staff maintained publicly that all options were still on the table, a source told A2W that a high level city staffer communicated to cycling advocates that Nueces as [...]
