Posts Tagged ‘LOBV’

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 [...]

UPDATE: Local attorney Jay Paul Warren (who let us publish that very helpful article on what to do in a bike-car accident) contacted me this evening to let me know he posted bail for the cyclist in question. Jason from ATXBS also sent me an e-mail from Chief Acevedo who is very aware of the [...]

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 [...]

Who says Austin doesn’t have a vibrant bike culture? There are 50, count ‘em 50 events on our comprehensive calendar of Austin cycling events this week. That means there is on average a cycling related event every 3 1/2 hours in Austin. And it’s not even spring yet!
We can’t list them all here, so check [...]

Rob D’Amico with the League of Bicycle Voters is asking that all Austin cyclists contact the Austin City Council to support bike boxes, sharrows, painted bike lanes and Bikes May Use Full Lane signs.
This Thursday, City Council agenda (item 29 and item 30) contains a little $97,000 item that carries a lot of weight for the [...]

On Friday, I attended a standing room only City Forum Panel on Bicycle Research sponsored by the Community and Regional Planning Student Organization at the Texas Union on the UT campus. The forum included an interesting report from the Center for Transportation Research as well as an update on the progress toward adopting a new City of [...]