The City of Austin is getting ready to paint new bike lanes all over town, and the League of Bicycling Voters is encouraging participation in City hosted open houses around town to ensure good facilities get built. In many cases, these new lanes will entail the removal of a limited number of current on street [...]
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Pedal Hard offering 30 minute complementary training sessions at Open House this weekend
If you are thinking about getting faster or going long, getting a training coach can be a huge help. Luckily, we have a former Tour de France pro in town who can help you out. Kevin Livingston of Pedal Hard raced pro for 14 years including in 6 Tours de France. He now coaches training [...]
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 [...]
Bike Boulevards: Everything old is new again
Attend this Wednesday’s Bike Boulevard Open House to bring back bikeable streets If you pay much attention to rail history in this country, you’ll know the current move to build light rail and street cars system in the many American cities is a movement to restore rail that was widespread until the 1950s. Most American [...]
More on Bike Boulevards and creating living streets
In a followup to yesterday’s post about creating a Nueces Street Bike Boulevard and next Wednesday’s design open house, StreetFilms just released this great video of what makes bike boulevards work and the idea of creating living streets, streets for people instead of streets for cars. Also included was a link to a guide book [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 12/3- 12/9/09
Assuming the impending winter weather doesn’t throw a kink in things, there is a bunch to do this weekend including the Urban Farm Bike Tour, Congress Avenue Roll, and Austin Cycling Association Holiday Party. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason [...]
Your voice needed at upcoming Nueces Bike Boulevard open houses
Nadia Barrera from the City of Austin Bicycle/Pedestrian Program has alerted us to some upcoming open houses on designing a proposed bike boulevard on Nueces Street. If you are not familiar with the concept, bike boulevards are on-street bike routes that either prohibit car traffic or limit it to slow, local only traffic with the [...]
Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 10/8- 10/14/09
Lots going on this week. Bike Prom is Friday (do you have your tux yet?) followed by a couples alleycat on Saturday and a Beertown pub crawl on Sunday. There are also two important meetings planning for Austin’s future: the Downtown Plan Open House on Saturday and Comprehensive Plan Open House on Monday. It’s important [...]
Recap: Austin Bicycle Plan open house at Mellow Johnny’s
Austin cyclists are engaged and excited about what’s coming. That was the message city staff heard loud and clear last night at the bicycle plan open house held at Mellow Johnny’s. Political campaigns and local organizers are also paying attention to the increased excitement. Representatives from the Chris Riley Austin City Council campaign were there, [...]
