Yesterday we reported on the upcoming March 4th Austin Bicycle Plan open house, but there’s an earlier event if you just can’t wait to get your hands on this phone-book-sized document and learn more about it will affect your biking life for the next decade or so.
This open house is next Thursday, February 26 at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Street Smarts Task Force’
Austin Bicycle Plan Open House at Mellow Johnny’s Thursday, February 26
Your input is still needed on bike safety devices
At last night’s Bicycle Advisory Council meeting, I was informed that the city has gotten over 50 very good responses to this urgent request, but they would still like more! This is a great chance to make yourself heard and have an impact on bike safety here in Austin. Because this is so important, I’m [...]
Bicycle Advisory Council Notes, 1-15-09
Jason at ATXBS has a very good synopsis of several things that were discussed at the BAC Thursday night, including the upcoming funding of bike boxes in test locations (yay!), the Austin Bicycle Plan being almost ready for a review (having an open house for comments on March 9 was tentatively discussed, sign our petition [...]
Interview with Austin Bicycle Program Manager Annick Beaudet
Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager for the City of Austin, was nice enough to answer some interview questions for us. We think she is doing a great job, and wanted to give her an opportunity to talk directly to the cycling community on some issues that are important to all of us. Here’s what [...]
News flash: Bike Lanes make the road safer for cyclists
On Friday, I attended a standing room only City Forum Panel on Bicycle Research sponsored by the Community and Regional Planning Student Organization at the Texas Union on the UT campus. The forum included an interesting report from the Center for Transportation Research as well as an update on the progress toward adopting a new City of [...]
Austin Bike Plan Petition In-depth: Plan Timelines
This article is part of a series Austin Bike Blog is doing on the recently launched Austin Bike Plan Petition. The City of Austin is preparing the first update to its Bicycle Plan in twelve years, and Austin Bike Plan Petition is an attempt to get the best plan possible. Over the next few weeks we [...]
City of Austin Bicycle Plan (Street Smarts Task Force) Report, Part III
OTHER PARTS OF THIS REPORT:
Part I can be found here
Part II can be found here
Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to be writing a section-by-section summary and info on the City of Austin Street Smarts Task Force 2008 final report, which is Austin’s updated bicycle plan. I will add comments and links [...]
Austin Bike Blog helps launch the Austin Bike Plan Petition
Austin Bike Plan Petition calls for clear time lines for implementation, better bike facilities
The cycling community in Austin at a cross roads right now, and Marcus and I believe cyclists are in a unique position to ensure the City of Austin makes biking for transportation a priority and builds the necessary infrastructure to support this [...]
City of Austin Bicycle Plan (Street Smarts Task Force) Report, Part II
OTHER PARTS OF THIS REPORT:
Part I can be found here.
Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to be writing a section-by-section summary and info on the City of Austin Street Smarts Task Force 2008 final report, which is Austin’s updated bicycle plan. I will add comments and links to other related news articles [...]
City of Austin Bicycle Plan (Street Smarts Task Force) Report, Part I
Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to be writing a section-by-section summary and info on the City of Austin Street Smarts Task Force 2008 final report, which is Austin’s updated bicycle plan. I will add comments and links to other related news articles where needed.
The Street Smarts Task Force Final Report can [...]
