Bicycle Transportation Alliance

Ya, here is the Nanny State hero, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance's very own White Knight. Jonathan Maus, editor of BikePortland.org. This guy routinely speaks for every cyclist in Portland, and endorses some of the most anit-cycling policy to come out of city hall since the 70s. He's one of these, "With friends like this, who needs enemies", kind of folks. He's endorsed countless out-of-town business start-ups. Relentlessly criticized local citizens who oppose the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, and his buds Roger Geller, and Scotty Bricker. All the while doing so from the smug confines of self-righteousness, and thinly vieled contempt for us locals.

So, I find it fairly gratifying to see him making an ass out of himself. Especially considering while he was yucking it up for his sycophants people like Dawn Slawta, and the unidentified man struck and killed on Hwy 43 were out walking the walk.

Here's to those of us who do it for real.

Steph Routh, executive director of the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition, speaks at the event this morning.- More images -(Photos © J. Maus) With the summer cycling season in full swing, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) and a host of partners kicked of another year of their Eye to Eye safety campaign at a press conference near the [...]

There I am, making my way up this disaster called a bike-lane on SW Broadway downtown. This southbound thoroughfare is exceedingly over used. With the downtown cluster fuck now fairly well implemented, traffic on SW Broadway has careened out of control, and is easily 3x what it was just 7 days ago.

Just like the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, and BikePortland.org want it to be. Grats guys! No more bikes downtown! Got pretty-shiny-Amsterdamy trains to pay for, so forcing people to ride them, or walk, will PROVE the Church of Green fanatics are always right!

Ya, so there I am stuck in this stupid bike lane, my privilege to use the public-right-of-way having been unceremoniously stripped from me, without a vote. I'm riding up this piece of shit at my usual slow pace, and hugging car-doors, to my own detriment, to be courteous to passing cyclists. You're not really supposed to pass in these lanes, or more accurately the haphazard way they were deployed violates Oregon Law in such a way that there is no legal room to pass. Can't take the lane, because that is illegal too. So, because every behavior one might use to effect a pass has been criminalized, passing isn't illegal per-say, just anything you might do to pass is illegal. Typical spin-doctor bullshit from the Netherlands worshippers pulling diminished access-wool over real bicyclist's eyes.

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This just in from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance: Children and Families Walk + Bike to Baseball to Celebrate a Month of Sustainable Success! Monday, June 1, 2009 ? The Bicycle Transportation Alliance announces the close of a very successful Walk + Bike to School Challenge Month which will be celebrated at PGE Park on June 12th with [...]

Friendly Officer Pickett keeps you out of trouble. by Sarah Mirk CYCLISTS AND THE LAW are not, in fact, direct opposites. Officer Robert Pickett is a Portland bike cop who bikers love. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance awarded him their highest honor this year for his noble efforts to make peace between the wide rainbow of people who share the road. Pickett also majored in political philosophy, which means he is smarter than you. Glean his secrets or pay the price. 1. Stay put! The overwhelming majority of traffic infractions are violations...

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Join Safer Routes to Schools and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance at the Walk + Bike to Baseball celebration on June 12

We'll have a lot more coverage of this exciting upcoming event in the weeks to come. For now, here's the official press release from conference host, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA): The 2nd Safe Routes to School National Conference will be held in Portland on August 19th-21st, bringing stakeholders from across North America together to [...]