Radio host slams bike parking and advocacy group
Local radio talk show host John Justice of 104.1 The Truth spent much of his broadcast Thursday morning slamming Living Streets Alliance and the push to modify the bicycle parking…
Car-lite blogger joins Tucson Velo
I’m excited to announce the addition of Britt Brouse to the Tucson Velo team. Britt is a car-lite writer and blogger. She’ll be contributing posts occasionally and is currently working…
Portland planner: ‘Tucson is right on the cusp’
Mia Birk, a bicycle planner who is largely credited for making Portland one of the most bike-friendly cities in the country spent the weekend here as the guest of Living…
2011 Bike Fest underway; tons of events coming up
The 2011 Bike Fest started this past weekend with several events including a GABA bike ride and several events with Mia Birk, a bicycle planner who helped launch Portland into…
Group hammers out bike parking details
After months of meetings and a city council vote rejecting a bike parking code update, it took a group of about 12 two and half hours Monday night to agree…
Bike Summit ride honors Giffords
Check out the StreetsFilms video documenting the ride and see Ann in action. The 2011 League of American Bicyclists Bike Summit wrapped up Friday with a bike ride around Washington…
Fast food restaurant ordered to replace bike parking
The Carl’s Jr. at Congress Street and the I-10 frontage road received a visit from a code enforcement officer from the City of Tucson’s Housing and Community Development Department on…
Update from Bike Summit… sort of: Cyclovia Tucson needs volunteers
Unfortunately, Ann Chanecka was sick yesterday and didn’t get to participate in the congressional meetings scheduled for the League of American Bicyclists National Bike Summit. However, she did write this…
A common occurrence on campus: Bike not reported stolen
Occasionally professors in the University of Arizona ask me to speak to their beginning reporting classes as an “expert” about bike-related issues. In one recent class a student asked me…
Video: Bike rodeo at the El Rio Health Fair
Check out a video from a bike rodeo at the El Rio Health Fair on Saturday, March 5. The Pima County Department of Transportation to the fair and handed out…
Day 2 from National Bike Summit
Editor’s note: Pima Association of Governments bicycle and pedestrian planner Ann Chanecka is spending the week in Washington D.C. for the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit. Chanecka will…
More bike-parking details from BAC meeting
In last night’s Tucson-Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting more details emerged about the city’s plan to work on the bicycle parking code update after the council voted to return…