How did you feel about Bike To Work Day 2009? From what I saw it was VERY busy at all the stations in the downtown area. Since I work at home, I didn’t have anywhere in particular to go so I followed the lead of Eileen and just rode around to a few stations to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Texas Bicycle Coalition’
Texas slides 6 places in ‘09 Bike Friendly State Rankings
Just out today are the 2009 rankings from the League of American Bicyclists, and the news isn’t good for our state. Last year, we were ranked 30th by their measures of “bike friendliness” and now we’re down to 36th. Ouch.
From the LAB website, a description of the rankings:
The Bicycle Friendly State Program is a two [...]
Safe Passing Bill Texas House hearing Tuesday morning
From the Texas Bicycle Coalition:
The 2009 Safe Passing Bill will have a Texas House hearing by the Transportation Committee next Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00am. The room at the capitol is E2.014.
The bill includes the “3-feet clearance” provision for cars passing cyclists. It has also been expanded to address right and left hooks and harassment [...]
Safe Passing bill delayed but making progress
As we reported last week, the Texas Senate hearing on the 2009 Safe Passing Act was postponed due to the big voter ID bill blowup. When it is rescheduled, we’ll let you know.
The Texas Bicycle Coalition wants to encourage you to participate in their ‘Cyclists in Suits‘ event on April 20. This is not a [...]
Half off your BikeTexas membership at Bicycle Sport Shop
Bicycle Sport Shop and the Texas Bicycle Coalition are teaming up to help increase memberships and get cyclists more power! Leslie Luciano at Bicycle Sport Shop sent in this announcement about a pilot program between the shop and TBC.
At Bicycle Sport Shop you can get a Texas Bicycle Coalition premium membership for half price, $30 [...]
Shifting Gears Luncheon, Part 1
“Building more roads to fix traffic is like throwing gas on fire.”
“Parking is not a constitutional right.”
“If an 8 year old can’t safely use a bikeway, then it is not a good bikeway.”
Today, BikeTexas (formerly Texas Bicycle Coalition) hosted a lunch time lecture by Dr. Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Columbia with State Senator Wendy [...]
Reminder: Shifting Gears luncheon this Wednesday
Shifting Gears with Enrique Peñalosa sponsored by Bike Texas
Wednesday, January 21
11:30 AM, Luncheon, Sumners Hall, St. David’s Episcopal Church, 304 E. 7th Street
3:00 PM, Bike Ride, BikeTexas offices, 1904 E. 6th Street
Texas Bicycle Coalition, aka BikeTexas, is sponsoring a luncheon called Shifting Gears with guest speaker Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá. Peñalosa is most famous in the cycling community for [...]
Austin Bike Culture Events: 1/15- 1/21/08
Once again, it’s time for our weekly highlight of up coming bike culture events in Austin with thanks to ATXBS. Thursday looks like a busy night!
Got an upcoming cycling or bike culture event you want us to promote? Contact us and we’ll add you to the weekly round up.
Thursday, January 15
Austin Bicycle Advisory Council Meeting
6:30 PM, One [...]
Shifting Gears luncheon scheduled for Jan 21
I just received word that the Texas Bicycle Coalition, aka Bike Texas, is sponsoring a luncheon called Shifting Gears on Wednesday, January 21. The focus of the luncheon is to learn how we can change the dynamics of transportation in Texas, while building healthy communities and reducing traffic. There will be a ride after the luncheon [...]
Upcoming Austin Bike Culture Events- 12/18- 12/24/08
My apologies for the two week absence of this weekly post. While I was gone learning to build bicycle frames, it was very hard to make posts and I neglected to ask Marcus to take up this project. Hopefully, we’ll see no future lapses in providing you a quick round up of bike culture events [...]
