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Help Austin plan its first bike boulevard
Austin’s going to get its first bicycle boulevard — a shared roadway optimized for bicycle traffic.
The conversion of a stretch of Nueces Street to a bike-friendly street with less motor traffic is part of the Austin Bicycle Plan, approved by the Austin City Council this year, and the draft Downtown Plan.
Want to help design it?
The first — and most important — planning meeting is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9 at Pease Elementary School, 1106 Rio Grande St.
Additional meetings are set for 6 p.m. Jan. 13 and 6 p.m. Jan. 27.
Bicycle boulevards create a sense of place and are comfortable and attractive to pedestrians, cyclists and motor vehicle users through the installation of signs, markings and traffic mitigation devices, according to Nadia Barrera, the city of Austin’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator,
The meetings will help determine where traffic mitigation devices will be installed.
To learn more about bicycle boulevards, check out these websites:
- http://www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/newsletter/99-4/bicycles.php
- www.bicyclinginfo.org/faqs/answer.cfm?id=3976
- http://www.nycsr.org/nyc/video-view.php?id=39
- http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/09/27/another-model-berkeleys-bicycle-boulevard-network/
For more information, call Jason Fialkoff at (512) 974-7060 or email him at Jason.fialkoff@ci.austin.tx.us.
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By CO2creator
December 7, 2009 3:51 PM | Link to this
Impressively repeating the mistakes made on Shoal Creek? Those dividers cause accidents. Bike lanes in general on roads suck because they are full of debris due to the cars not driving there kicking the road crud to the curb. Please just make shoulders on roads for bikes and cars to use as we wish. Stop wasting tax dollars over engineering simple problems.
By elvis
December 7, 2009 7:06 PM | Link to this
You should come to the meeting on Wed. CO2creator, so you can gain some idea as to what you’re talking about.