BIKE: Bike Meetings next week [Triangle , SW Town Hall, SCB]

[Eric Anderson]

Bike Folks:

 

It’s still bike month!

 

In addition to next weekend's Bike Austin! Month events, including Fri. 5-13 Light Up Your Bike Night Ride and Vigil (8 pm at Zilker Park), Sat. 5-14 Yellow Bike Project 8th anniversary party at Red Scoot Inn, and Sun. 5-15 Park, Shop and Picnic (spoke) Ride to Whole Foods/ Woolridge Park, consider speaking out for bikes at the public meetings detailed below.

 

[Bike Austin! Month calendar at: http://www.austincycling.org or see Cycling News at your neighborhood bike shop]

 

Eric Anderson

(512) 476-7304

 

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Triangle Transportation Study

Public meeting to discuss pedestrian, bicycle and transit issues

Tuesday, May 10th at 7pm

Department of State Health Services Winters Building Auditorium

701 West 51st. Street, Rm. 125

 

Please join the University of Texas Center for Transportation Research and

the City of Austin Public Works department at the Department of State Health

Services Winters Building Auditorium (701 West 51st. Street, Rm. 125) on

Tuesday, May 10, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss pedestrian, bicycle and transit

issues in the area surrounding the Triangle Development. The Triangle

Development is a mixed-use project that is currently under construction and

is bound by North Lamar Boulevard, Guadalupe Street and 45th Street.

 

Scope of Work The University of Texas Center for Transportation Research is

preparing a plan for recommended improvements to the Triangle Development

and surrounding areas to encourage and enhance non-automobile travel. This

meeting will be held to gather public input on pedestrian, bicycle and

transit needs in the area.

 

A map of the State Health complex is located at

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/visitor/complex.shtm

 

If you have questions before the meeting, or at any time, please contact Michelle Meaux at

(512) 974-2939.

 

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Town Hall Meeting at Wildflower Center

Subject: South MoPac and State Highway 45 South

Wednesday, May 11th at 6:30 pm

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

4801 La Crosse Avenue, Austin, Texas

 

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is hosting a town hall meeting next Wednesday, May 11th, on the future of South MoPac and State Highway 45 Southwest. The meeting will include presentations from TxDOT, CAMPO, and SOS Alliance. There will be a question and answer session where the public can ask questions about planned expansions of these two roadways, both of which are in the Barton Springs Recharge Zone.

 

The meeting will be from 6:30PM-9PM. It is open to the public and there is no admission charge. If you live in Southwest Austin or along the MoPac corridor, please let your neighbors know about this meeting. Current transportation plans call for expanding South MoPac into a full freeway (or possibly tollway) and for extending State Highway 45 South (possibly as a toll road) to connect South MoPac to Interstate 35. The town hall meeting will help interested citizens understand the timing, costs, and implications of these road plans.

 

Thanks to the Wildflower Center, SOS Alliance and Austin Metro Trails and Greenways, documents describing the proposed Southwest Greenbelt will be on display in the foyer of the Wildflower Center for this event. See Southwest Greenbelt web-site to see the results of an October 2004 charrette, and other information regarding this proposed trail/greenbelt stretching from Town Lake and Barton Springs to the Wildflower Center:

 

http://www.swgreenbelt.org/

 

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Shoal Creek Blvd. Transportation Project meeting

Wednesday, May 11, at 7:00 pm

Gullett Elementary School Cafeteria

6310 Treadwell Blvd., Austin, Texas

 

The City of Austin Public Works Department invites you to attend a

Public Meeting about the Shoal Creek Boulevard Transportation Project:

This Public Meeting will also be advertised through posted signs and

hand-delivered flyers in the coming weeks. Please feel free to forward

this invitation to anyone who might be interested in attending. If you

have any questions, please contact me at 974-7298 or

keri.juarez. Please join us for the meeting!

 

Sincerely,

 

Keri R. Burchard-Juarez, PE

City of Austin

Project Management Division

Public Works Department

phone: 974-7298

fax: 974-7203

 

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Previous message from SCB Transportation Project project manager Keri R. Burchard-Juarez:

 

>Dear Shoal Creek area residents:

>

>I want to thank all of you for contacting the City to provide your input

>regarding the Shoal Creek Blvd. Transportation Project. Be assured that

>City staff is hearing and acting upon your concerns. We are posting signs

>throughout the project area to warn drivers of the presence of the curb

>extensions. The signs will be up by March 18. Once these signs are in

>place and some of the curb extensions are complete, including landscaping

>and pavement reflectors, we will begin monitoring driver and cyclist

>response to the improvements. We will monitor for a period of 

>approximately

>

>two weeks. The data gathered will allow staff to draw informed conclusions

>about the safety and effectiveness of the curb extensions. After the

>monitoring is complete, we will hold a public meeting to answer questions

>and gather input from citizens. Thus, City staff will not be speaking at

>the Allandale Neighborhood Association meeting on March 23. We feel it 

>will be more productive to meet after we have firm data about the safety and

>effectiveness of the improvements. We are tentatively looking at 

>scheduling the public meeting during the week of…, but the actual date and

>location will be forthcoming. Please feel free to contact me with any

>questions or concerns. Thanks again for your time and interest in your

>community.

>

>

>

>Keri R. Burchard-Juarez, PE

>

>City of Austin

>

>Project Management Division

>

>Public Works Department

>

>phone: 974-7298

>

>fax: 974-7203

 










Eric Anderson <bikeeric>
(512) 476-7304
		
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