Texas Bicycling News Digest January 15th 2019
Local veteran presented with tandem bicycle
By: Anna Gutierrez | www.bigspringherald.com
BIG SPRING, TX – As we have all seen and heard, our military veterans face many challenges and can experience many hardships once they leave the service and try to work their way back to a civilian lifestyle. Unfortunately, this was the case for Jeremy Blount. Jeremy was in the military for several years, but when he left the service, he says he felt lost and …
W 5th Street: Bye bye buffered bike lane, hello bus lane
owlman | bicycleaustin.info
owlman wrote: "The new lane on 5th Street west of MoPac is similar to the bus-priority lanes on Guadalupe and Lavaca Streets. Working with Cap Metro, the Austin Transportation Department is converting a bike lane that ran all the way to Lamar Blvd into a dedicated bus & bike lane for a half-mile section between West Lynn and Baylor Streets."
That seems pretty nice. Bus/Bike/RTO lanes work well and are pretty comfortable to ride in. Few bicycling "facilities" change my usual ways to get to and fro, but I started riding Guadalupe instead of Congress to go south from downtown and have been glad for the way that is laid out mostly.
I noted this bonus from one of the links you provided — "while all other traffic is stopped at a red light, buses and bicycles will be allowed through the intersection" because of special signals. Nice.
VCC: Tempo Tuesday! Great to have VCC and Valhalla riding together. They definitely picked up the pace.
Leo Vela (VCC) | www.strava.com
A Dude Abikes in the News!: One Year Later…
A DUDE ABIKES | adudeabikes.wordpress.com
…I’m Still Ready for My Close-Up That’s right, A Dude Abikes was featured in the local newspaper. I blogged about it on January 15, 2018, and since it’s exactly a year later today, it seems appropriate to remind older readers, new followers and visitors, too. The blog is titled “Read All About It! A Dude Abikes Featured in the Austin American-Statesman.†While it did not catapult me to stardom or anything, I thought it was a pretty decent write-up. It was by the now former reporter and author of …