BIKE: another commuting question (North Loop to the Capitol)={Speedway}

[Eric Anderson]

Bike folks:

Jeb has a nice route..., One which I used when I resided on 39 1/2 when I first moved to Austin. Central Market opened just after I moved in, and now nine years later, we are still using parking lots as our commuting routes!!! This will surely not change any time soon.

The signal at West and 38th has improved the route, I will say.

But why NOT turn south on SPEEDWAY?!!!
Because we have not effectively stated as a community, and its organizations, that bicycle transportation is an important and valuable part of the tool-box toward creating a pedestrian (and bicycle) friendly campus.
 
One happy note, I did hear a reply from Mr. Harkins:
 
Eric:  Understand.  We continue to work the bicycle access issue.  
Bob
 
I responded that UT should hire a competent Bicycle Facility Planning consultant to address the Speedway issue, partner with the City of Austin to address broader district issues, and work with the bicycling community to help create that PEDESTRIAN (and bicycle) friendly campus.
 
You may wish to remind Mr. Harkins that Speedway was an unbroken route from 46th St. and Guadalupe where bike lanes follow north, to the State Capital, Congress Avenue, and Downtown Austin. The closure of Speedway by the University of Texas has replaced a safe, convenient, quiet, direct route with alternatives characterized by high traffic volumes and speed, hills, and near complete lack of bicycle accommodations.
 
Gerald Robert Harkins Ed.D
Director 
Parking and Transportation Services
P.O. Box 7546
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713-7546
Phone:     512-471-5398
Fax:         512-232-9405
E-mail:     <bharkins>

 
The squeaky wheel gets the grease!
 
Eric
 
P.S. I would be interested in any replies you may receive from Bob Harkins; whether anyone has heard recently from Physics Professor Gleason; or comments from folks who attended joint UT - City of Austin "bike" meetings last year.

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----Original Message Follows----
From: Mike Dahmus 
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:35:23 -0600

UT's solution would be that you head over to Duval and then go through 
campus on San Jacinto.

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Jeb Boyt <jeboyt> wrote:

Howdy neighbor.

I also live near N. Loop and Burnet. The route that I take to the Capitol 
is -

- South on Shoal Creek to 41st (the top of the hill), turn left (east)
- 41st to Burnet (here it is residential), turn right
- South on Burnet to 40th
- Left (east) on 40th to Central Market (crossing the landscaping or the gas 
station parking lot)
- Turn right (south) and go through the parking lot and past the Heart 
Hospital to the light at 38th and West. Then south on West.
- Left (east) on 34th.
- Cross Guadalupe and right (south) on Hemphill Park
- Left (east) on 30th
- Right (southeast) on San Jacinto and through UT to the Capitol.

You could also take either the Shoal Creek Trail or Medical Parkway to 34th, 
but that would add a hill and more traffic.

If you start east of Burnet, you could pick up this route by taking Woodrow 
to 49th, cross Burnet at the light heading west, turn left on Woodview, 
taking it to Shoal Creek.

Jeb





Eric Anderson <bikeeric>
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