Bicycle Transportation Alliance
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) 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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233 NW 5th
Portland OR
503-226-0676
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Sep 2, 2010Street Roots
Rob Sadowsky, Bicycle Transportation Alliance's new director, looks ahead to the organization's next 20 years By Israel Bayer Staff Writer The Bicycle Transportation Alliance is 20 years old this year. The organization has helped foster a bicycle movement in Portland ... Continue reading 
Sep 1, 2010Pop Art
Bicycle Transportation Alliance Bike Commute Challenge Website: www.bikecommutechallenge.com
Tell someone that you are a full time bicycle commuter of almost 6 years and you will get two responses ? shock, followed by a laundry list of reasons why they can't bike commute?even though they wish they could. Oh, and the random third response is, "have you [...]
Aug 27, 2010Neighborhood Notes
The Mt. Scott-Arleta Neighborhood Association and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance are hosting a FREE Bike Commuter Workshop September 1st at 7:15 p.m. (following the MSANA board meeting that...
Aug 25, 2010Brewpublic
BikeToBeerFest is a family-friendly, bike-in Oktoberfest celebrating Portland's bike culture. The $2 entrance fee benefits the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and Sunday Parkways. The event features 15 local and organic HUB beers, live music, entertainment and games for children, bike building demonstrations, BMX stunt riders and the famous "Huffy Huck" bike toss competition.
Aug 11, 2010Land PDX
Friday, August 27 from 6-9pm, it's the Bicycle Transportation Alliance Bicycle Art show featuring the poster work of Stumptown Printers.
Join us upstairs in the gallery where we'll be featuring bicycle-related posters and outside in the parking lot where we'll have a live band and be doing a little square dancing.
All proceeds from poster sales during the show will go to the BTA!
Also featuring live music, and parking lot square dancing with the Greasy Chain String Band! Come dance in the Land Gallery parking lot and view original bike-related poster art in the gallery.
Stumptown Printers Bike Poster project is a poster series designed to spotlight original bicycle art, raise funds for bicycle transportation initiatives and celebrate bike culture. Started in 2004, the poster series is a collaborative project involving many different print artists.
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) is a statewide non-profit membership organization working to create healthy, sustainable communities by making bicycling safe, convenient, and accessible. Our members fuel bike advocacy at the local, state, and national levels, volunteer teaching the next generation of cyclists our in-school bike safety curriculum, and introduce thousands of individuals each year to bike commuting in the September Bike Commute Challenge.
Opens Friday, August 27th, 2010 @ 6pm
POSTER ART! MUSIC! "STREET" PARTY! TACOS! DANCING! SUMMER!
Featuring Bicycle Art Prints from the Stumptown Printers Bike Poster Series
All proceeds from poster sales during the show will go to the BTA!
Also featuring live music, and parking lot square dancing with the Greasy Chain String Band!
Come dance with our new director [...]
Aug 12, 2010OregonLive.com: Hard Drive
Well, this is a little embarrassing, Portland.
Chris Knott over at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance just e-mailed Hard Drive to say the Tour de Fat will roll into town this weekend and no one has stepped up to hand over his or her car keys and title in exchange for a custom-made commuter bicycle.
Aug 14, 2010p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance and Patience
If you're looking for me this afternoon, I'll be selling tokens at the Tour de Fat down at Waterfront Park. My shift starts at 1:30pm.
It's a great annual fundraiser for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, so by all means -- stop by and say hi.
And speaking of tokens:
It's a great annual fundraiser for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, so by all means -- stop by and say hi.
And speaking of tokens:
from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance feed...Send your Bike Commute Challenge Team photo to stephanie@bta4bikes.org
Sep 2, 2010
Rob Sadowsky, BTA's new Executive Director has been at the helm of the BTA for two months this week and he shares what he has learned about Portland, the State of Oregon, and the bicycling movement as well as makes a call for action.
Sep 1, 2010
Send your bike commute photo to Stephanie@bta4bikes.org
Sep 1, 2010
What could be better than beer and bikes under one roof? Cheap beer and a free bike, of course!
Sep 1, 2010
Be sure to register your school for this international event no later than Thursday, September 9th to receive fun goodies like shoelaces, Walk + Bike stickers and even a cool Nutcase helmet!
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...