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 [...]
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LOBV Get Out the Vote Rally this Sunday
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 [...]
Rob D’Amico’s Story on James Clayton in the Chron
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!
Are you beating me in the Austin Commuter Challenge?
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. [...]
League of Bicycling Voters releases its Austin City Council Endorsements
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 [...]
Tough luck on the TUF?
Should Austin taxpayers be able to choose where their road maintenance fees go? One of the most important questions submitted by the League of Bicycling Voters at last night’s city council candidate forum was related to the Transportation User Fee or TUF. The TUF is a small fee of around $5 (well, $4.97) added on [...]
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 [...]
APD Chief Art Acevedo speaks at ACA
Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo spoke and answered questions before a large audience at the Austin Cycling Association meeting last night. Before we talk about the rest, let’s get the Austin Police Chief’s “big faux pas” out of the way: In the middle of a really long answer about sharing the road, APD Chief [...]
