Bicycle Austin forum

Michael- could you just post a listing of regular(Tuesday Night Yoga, Humpday Nooner, Thursday Night Social etc)and fairly regular (Heavy Breather, Sunday Dude Looks Like a Lady etc)  rides and a link to the Social Cycling FB page? that way folks who are on FB could easily sign up if interested and get the details

have you checked with the Black Star Co-op folks to see if maybe someone turned it in there? also CapMetro lost and found might be worth a call/visit

a more useful tactic would have been to show up with a TBC bicycle pin on and sit in the front row (or as close as possible.)

batcity VIA THE WEB FORUM wrote:
> Nueces is almost entirely zoned for commercial property.  When I invested my life savings as well as my company's future in purchasing property on Nueces last year, I did it for one simple reason: the ability to increase exposure of my company within a densely populated and growing downtown district with accessible through traffic in place.  Nueces offers this as it is a thoroughfare from MLK to downtown and soon to expand to Cesar Chavez.  Many alternate streets do not provide the same luxuries.
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such as Guadalupe or Lavaca?

> My company, as many others established on Nueces, rely on this exposure.  My client based has grown since our move and it can be often directly traced back to this exposure.  I have also hired two new employees since this summer.  My area is also zoned by the city to continue to grow with development once the economy turns around.  Additional growth will lead to more traffic and more exposure. 
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so your business has  increased from moving to Nueces from your previous location on Guadalupe? since there's a traffic light at 41st there would be plenty of eyeballs stopped and able to see the sign for your shop, so you can't complain about a lack of visibility. something tells me that the slower traffic on Nueces has already increased your business, despite the significantly lowered traffic volume.
I would imagine that many of your customers call to get your hours, prices, etc, at which time you can easily give them directions that would easily avoid the bollards from the bike boulevard, i.e. "take MLK to Nueces and turn south, we're 2 blocks down on the left or turn right on 16th from Guadalupe and then right on Nueces, we're a block and a half up on the right.

> The problem with a bicycle boulevard is it is designed to deter automobile traffic.  This decreases exposure therefore also devaluing my business.  Unfortunately, there are not and will never be enough bicyclists on Nueces to compensate for this lost exposure.
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if you build it they will come
> In addition, my commercial property will go down in value as it has less intrinsic value to other companies to purchase the property.  The reason the property values have doubled in the last five years to begin with along Nueces is due to the rapidly increasing exposure it offers businesses and the city's rezoning plans to densify the area. 
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so your property taxes will also drop

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