Bicycle Transportation Alliance
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance works to open minds and roads to bicycling. We work to promote bicycle use, improve bicycling conditions throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington, and educate current and future cyclists.
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Portland OR
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Mar 17, 2010The Portland Tribune
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has tapped Chicago transportation advocate Rob Sadowsky as its new executive director.
Sadowsky takes his new job July 1.
Sadowsky was head of the Chicago's Active Transportation Alliance. He also serves on the boards of the League of American Bicyclists ...
Mar 11, 2010Portland Transport
A group of local environmental organizations issued a letter today critical of the response from Governors Kulongoski and Gregoire to the request of local leaders to have more control of the Columbia River Crossing project:
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Just learned from Margaux at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (via Twitter of course) that over 40 schools have registered for Walk + Bike Challenge Month! That with only 10 days of open registration!
Sign your school up today to be sure to be one of the first 80 schools that get a box of incentives from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Not familiar with Walk + Bike Challenge Month? Check out our recent write up here.
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Scott Bricker(Photo © J. Maus)
Scott Bricker, the former executive director of the Portland-based Bicycle Transportation Alliance has been hired by non-profit America Walks, a national coalition of pedestrian advocacy groups.
Bricker, who was let go by the BTA back in November, is now working as a consultant. With his new contract position as Campaign Manager [...]
Mar 9, 2010Ira Ryan Cycles
we are happy to announce an event for rex burkholder to help him get elected to as president of portland metro next thursday march 18th at 6 o'clock pm. rex started the bicycle transportation alliance and is working hard to keep the portland area moving in the right direction for cyclists and sustainable land use [...]
Feb 25, 2010BikePortland
A breakout group at a BTA Advocacy Forum held in August.(Photo © J. Maus)
Tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 in Northwest Portland, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance will hold the first of seven Member Forums.
The BTA says this members-only event will allow their staff and board to discuss the issues that are "relevant and important [...]
Feb 17, 2010BikePortland
From Wweek.com.
Power to the Pedal is the title of the cover story in this week's Willamette Week newspaper. The story was written by Nigel Jaquiss (who won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 2005) and it focuses on how the Bicycle Transportation Alliance figures into the current state of bicycle advocacy in Portland. [...]
from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance feed...Learn why Oregon's and Washington's governors recently received a letter from fourteen public interest groups, including the BTA, raising serious concerns with the Columbia River Crossing Project.
Mar 17, 2010
This summer, North Portland Bikeworks and the BTA are teaming up to offer a world class urban-adventuring, community-building, summer field trip/day camp for 10-15 year olds
Mar 17, 2010
Read a report from our advocacy team and find out what you can do to advocate for walking and biking nationally.
Mar 17, 2010
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Mar 16, 2010
We write to you today in support of the proposal to build Green Streets and fund them through cost savings on the Big Pipe project. This ordinance is a win-win for clean water, city ratepayers, and livable communities. Here's why:
Originally formed as a chapter of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, coalition members considered that we could better serve the needs of Washington County road users of all types because we have...
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance in partnership with the Washington County Bicycle Transportation Coalition, has formed an ad hoc committee develop a program to raise motorists? awareness about ...
The home of the Bike Commute Challenge, a friendly bike-to-work competition among Oregon and SW Washington workplaces. The Challenge is a program of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, and is supp...
ORbike hosts a benefit for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
This mostly flat, 15-mile street ride takes you past hootin' and hollerin' night life and fire jugglers, through a disco party re...
Working to make Portland, Oregon a platinum-level bicycle friendly city.
Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder represents District 5, which includes Northwest Portland, North Portland, Northeast Portland, downtown Portland, a portion of Southwest Portland and a portion of Sout...
Eye to Eye is a multi-city campaign from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance & Partners that aims to foster awareness and respect on shared paths and roadways, making the streets of our communities...
Resource for bicycle events in Portland through the personal blog of Anomalily including a daily photograph, comics, and a house built out of pallets and bubble wrap.
Services and education materials for schools, parents, and kids to learn about walking and biking safely, carpooling, and taking transit to school.
Portland Safer Routes to School (SR2S) began t...