Posts Tagged ‘Urban Transportation Commission’

Last week, the City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program released its staff recommendations for a Downtown Bicycle Boulevard. The League of Bicycling Voters was critical of the proposal, especially the recommendations for Nueces Street. It has all the signs of compromise as the opposition to the bike boulevard also seems unhappy with the recommendations. [...]

Critics of bike blvd make factually incorrect statements in calling for delay or removal of bike boulevard. Plus an update on the free swim policy at Barton Springs Pool. Tuesday night, the City of Austin Urban Transportation Commission met to review the current progress on plans to create Austin’s first bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street. [...]

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your event on and [...]

The golf cart taxi company Capital Cruisers will be on the agenda at the Urban Transportation Commission meeting on Tuesday. Our first story on this a few weeks ago has generated quite a bit of conversation between the golf cart proponents and pedicab drivers. If you’re interested in coming and putting your two cents in [...]

There’s a lot going on this Easter weekend including the addition of some nice new rides sponsored by the Austin Cycling Association leaving from The Peddler Bike Shop. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some [...]

Austin’s cycling community is doing it up right with spring break and SXSW starting this weekend! You could spend all day Saturday going from event to event and never leave your saddle yet still pick up some grub, suds, and swag. Sweet! Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find [...]

Just got back from the Urban Transportation Commission where officials from Cap Metro spoke about the bus lines and service times they want to cut starting in June. According to them, most of the changes are from specific route times that had very low ridership. The biggest cut is that weekend Dillo service will be [...]

Every week it grows. There are now 84 cycling related events for the coming week on our comprehensive calendar of Austin Cycling Events. That means on average there is a cycling event happening every two hours. Think we can crack 100 by March? Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. As [...]

So after last week’s highlight of over 50 cycling related and bike culture events, this week we are coming roaring back with 63 events on our calendar. In addition to the events we’re promoting below, we also added the regular rides of the Sun City Cyclists. They do a group ride every day at 9 [...]

Once again, it’s time for our weekly highlight of up coming bike culture events in Austin with thanks to ATXBS. 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 22 City of Austin Parks update on the Proposed [...]