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APD Bicycle Theft Resolution Subcommittee Meeting Tonight

Reminder from Nadia Barrera at the City of Austin:
This is just a reminder of tonight’s Bicycle Theft Resolution Subcommittee Meeting. Our meeting will be held at the Austin Police Department’s Headquarters building located at 715 East 8th Street, on the 4th Floor in the CompStat Room. Please enter the police department through the east entrance [...]

Golf carts, Bike Plan at the UTC Tuesday

The golf cart taxi company Capital Cruisers will be on the agenda at the Urban Transportation Commission meeting on Tuesday. Our first story on this a few weeks ago has generated quite a bit of conversation between the golf cart proponents and pedicab drivers.
If you’re interested in coming and putting your two cents in on [...]

ACA Meeting Tonight at 7pm: Camping by bike

The Austin Cycling Association meets at 7pm tonight at the LCRA Redbud Center, 3601 Lake Austin Boulevard (it’s on the south side of the road, not the north side like the other main LCRA buildings:  click for a map)
Tonight’s topic is camping by bicycle. From their website description:
If you’ve ever dreamed about doing a self-contained [...]

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 extremely successful forum, [...]

Bike plan input: we’ll give you four more chances

There are four more opportunities to put in your two cents’ worth on the Austin Bike Plan before it becomes THE LAW. You can look at our full calendar for more details along the way but this is what’s left:
April 14: The plan will be considered for recommendation by the Urban Transportation Commission
April 28: The [...]

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, [...]