For over three decades, Austin developers and citizens have been dreaming up something big for the Waller Creek corridor, the area along Waller Creek downtown from Lady Bird Lake up to the University of Texas campus, and it looks like things are finally rolling. According the City of Austin official page on the project, urban [...]
Posts Tagged ‘recreation’
Bike sales still going strong
From the Fort Myers, Florida News-Press comes this story on the state of the bicycle industry. Interestingly, the story there focuses more on bicycles being used for cheap recreation and not transport, although it just may be the location. I’ve heard that commuter sales are still going well in Austin too and that lots of [...]
Lady Bird Lake Boardwalk Trail Update
Last night, I arrived to a packed house at the Austin Parks and Recreation office on south Lamar, for a joint subcommittee meeting of the Park board and the Environmental board. Two important items were on the agenda, but from the looks of the sign-in sheets, the vast majority in the audience of over 50 [...]
