Posts Tagged ‘transportation’

This came in from the COA Bike and Pedestrian Program. Cyclists should stay involved in Capital Metro’s future planning so we can make sure that bike access gets the priority it needs at their facilities.
City of Austin Bicycle Stakeholders,
Please see the attached information (see the document below) regarding CapMetro’s Service Plan 2020.  This plan offers [...]

If you are a long time reader you probably already about our Azor Secret Service long-term test bike. As we posted about a week ago, its time with us is just about over. Elliott and I loved riding and writing about the Azor but there’s only so much you can say over seven months about [...]

After their noon press conference today, the Austin Commuter Challenge has officially been launched. You can sign up as an individual or as part of a team. There was talk about maybe forming a League of Bicycling Voters team, for example.
So now that the site is up and launched, go do it! We were thinking [...]

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 way, [...]

Thanks to Bicycle Sport Shop’s Leslie Luciano for sending over this revised, texas-focused release about the 2009 National Bike Summit!
Record Number Attended 2009 Bike Summit!
In total, 580 registrants from 47 states and four countries (Canada, Denmark, Czech Republic and the USA) visited more than 350 Congressional offices on Thursday, March 12. More than a hundred [...]

…but can we get a real one next time?
When my neighborhood Randall’s grocery store was “refreshed” or whatever you wanna call it (the store at Ben White & Manchaca if you’re wondering), they were kind enough to install this row of “bicycle racks” on the side of the building. Bike rack goes in quotes in [...]

Last night, the city’s Urban Transportation Commission (UTC) adopted the following recommendations to send along as input for the Downtown Austin Plan, which is in progress:
Whereas the Downtown Austin Plan intends to create the best multi modal system possible, the Bicycle and Pedestrian Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Commission recommends to the [...]

What sustainable communities are forming or established in the US? What ideas can they share with each other? How do we “spread the seed” of sustainable living?
Mandy Creighton & Ryan Mlynarczyk pondered these questions and decided to take a round-trip across the United States, twelve thousand miles in one year to find answers and, in [...]

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 [...]

We were extremely excited to see news about the Urban Farm Bicycle Tour event appear in our inbox a couple of weeks ago. We asked Leslie Luciano, Community Relations Manager at Bicycle Sport Shop a couple of questions for us about the event, and her answers are below:
Perhaps you could just describe Bicycle Sport Shop’s [...]