With all the activity involving NAHBS this weekend, I wanted to make sure everyone knew about this forum happening on Friday. It’s been mentioned that getting more women on bikes is critical to reach the goal where cycling becomes a main stream transportation choice. On Friday, City of AustinBicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator Nadia Barrera and Mellow [...]
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2011 Bike Month planning meeting scheduled for Monday, February 7
While May seems a long way off on these chilly winter days, the planning is already beginning for Austin’s Bike Month. The City of Austin is coordinating a planning meeting to begin putting together the events and activities for the month. If you would like to help out or are curious about what is involved, [...]
CoA Staff Guest Post: Signal Problems?
Editor Note: The following is a guest post written by Nadia M. Barrera, the Bicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator in the City of Austin’s Public Works Department. Have you ever had problems triggering a traffic signal to turn green while on your bicycle? This can be very frustrating, especially because as cyclists, we are a minority that [...]
City of Austin provides update on Pfluger extension, other projects
Member and alternate slots opens up on BAC This morning, Nadia Barrera from the Bicycle/Pedestrian Program at the City of Austin sent out the update below on upcoming projects for the year including these drawings for the much anticipated completion of the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge extension over Cesar Chavez. In addition to these projects, the [...]
Another local bike theft and the Copenhagen Wheel making theft a thing of the past
Earlier this week, we reported on the theft of We Robinson’s black Santa Cruz Tallboy. Unfortunately, we have to report another theft this time from City of Austin Bicycle Program staffer Nadia Barrera. I got my bicycle stolen some time between 10:30 PM last [Monday] nightand 8:30 AM this morning. It has a black GT [...]
Electronic kiosk parking going in downtown, more bike racks on the way
The City of Austin is moving away from traditional parking meters for on street parking to electronic kiosks, but fortunately for cyclists, more bike racks are being installed to replace the lost parking meters. The system offers the advantage of letting people pay by credit card as well as cash, varying rates by time, higher [...]
City Staff on DIY Bike Lanes: Leave the painting to the professionals
Over at the Bicycle Austin forum e-mail list, a poster recently suggested some guerrilla street painting to carve out space for cyclists on Austin streets specifically on parts of Parmer Lane and along the IH-35 access road. The post was in response to a recent Bicycling magazine article about a group in Los Angeles that [...]
