If you’ve ever been anywhere near the UT campus on game day, you know parking and traffic are a nightmare. At one time, you could park a mile or so away for free and hoof it to the game. Now you have to pay big bucks to the Longhorn Foundation just for the right to [...]
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Bikes: the official vehicle of SXSW
Bikes are everywhere at SXSW. Here’s a small gallery of bikes seen and a look at just how many were parked around the convention center. Racks? totally full. In one photo above, you can see that all the stair railings on the west side of the building have been put to work too. By the [...]
You’re in the jungle baby, and you’re gonna lock up your bike
Ever needed to park your bicycle downtown but you just couldn’t find tall enough artificial vegetation to lock up to? The Downtown Austin Alliance has your back, in a big way! Following the lead of similar projects in Louisville, New York City and other places, the DAA is almost ready to give the cycling community [...]
Useless bike lanes – can’t we get them where we actually need them?
This weekend, I was walking around south congress while waiting for my bicycle to be worked on at Tsumani Cycles (hi guys!) when I walked by some of the side streets and saw this wonderful bicycle lane. Wonderfully bad, that is. First, this is a neighborhood street, that doesn’t have very much traffic on it, [...]
