Austin looks to obtain bike league ‘gold level’
The city of Austin is hoping to boost its bicycle-friendly level to gold status, as designated by the League of American Bicyclists.
Austin, which climbed to a silver level in 2007, is the only Texas city to receive an award by the league. Austin City Council members approved a resolution Thursday to upgrade the city’s bicycle network to attain a gold level.
“We are number one, and we don’t want to be number two,” said Councilwoman Sheryl Cole.
The League of American Bicyclists determines bicycle-friendly levels by the amount of engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation a community puts into planning its bicycle network.