Hey, I’m just like you and I’m a Bike Commuter

When I decided to go car-free and began bike commuting to work people thought that I had gone a bit nuts. The biggest issue was that I worked on the north side of the city, 16 miles from my south Austin apartment. I was able to bike four miles in the afternoon to the light rail and get off at the station very close to the news station where I worked, but when I got out of work at 11:00 PM the light rail was no longer operating. So, I biked 16 miles home five nights a week. These days my bike commute is only 4.5 miles each way and I leave work at 5 PM. Sometimes I think about that long, dark ride home that I used to pedal every night and I can’t believe I made the harrowing trek for one year. It didn’t seem so crazy at the time because I was determined to make cycling a part of my everyday life and that commute was just something that I had to do.

Austin addresses cyclist safety issues

If you are living in Austin right now and especially if you are an Austin cyclist you’ve undoubtedly noticed the recent rash of car vs. cyclist fatalities. Last night Austin police spoke to the cyclist community about safety on the city’s roads.