This last week, the Austin Chronicle published a story about a recent sharp uptick in citations to pedicabbers downtown for various seemingly minor infractions such as cuing up outside of the “designated areas.” Since regulations on pedicabs have come along in an organic fashion and can be wildly different from each company depending on how [...]
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Bikes Belong Coalition launches People for Bikes campaign with goal of 1 million
This week is the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, a meeting of all the major bicycle advocacy organizations to push for more resources for bikes as a valid form of transportation. At the summit, the Bikes Belong Coalition has rolled out their new People for Bikes initiative with a goal of getting the signed [...]
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 [...]
Tonight the last in a series of open houses on the Nueces St Bicycle Boulevard
Nueces Bicycle Boulevard Open House #3 Wednesday, February 24 @ 6 PM Pease Elementary, 1106 Rio Grande St. Join Social Cycling ATX for a social ride and movie viewing party after the open house tonight! As the first major project in the new Austin Master Bicycle Plan, the City of Austin is considering creating the [...]
City Bike-Ped staff commission committee to hammer out compromise on Nueces Bike Boulevard
A model process for the future or the Son of Shoal Creek? This week, City staff from the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program will begin convening a steering committee with the goal of creating a compromise solution on what has turned out to be a contentious proposal for Austin’s first bicycle boulevard. The committee will be [...]
City offers more options, positions harden at second bike boulevard meeting
Last night, the City of Austin held its second in a three part series of open houses on the proposed bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street. While city staff maintained publicly that all options were still on the table, a source told A2W that a high level city staffer communicated to cycling advocates that Nueces as [...]
New petition seeks to ban cars from Iowa Farm to Market Roads
On Monday, we let you know about an online petition that is asking the Iowa legislature to ban bicycle on all Iowa farm to market roads. Not to be out done, a group calling itself the Coalition for the Safety of Citizens of Iowa put together a humorous counter petition, Stop sharing Iowa FM roads. [...]
Iowa petiton seeks to ban bicycles from most roads
A group calling itself Citizens for Safety Coalition of Iowa has created a petition to the Iowa legislature calling on the ban of bicycles on all farm-to-market roads in the state. Safety is the argument made for passing this law change. We the undersigned are Iowa residents who urge our Legislature to support a ballot [...]
