"car free blocks, lane sharing on 18pmh roads, and buffered bikelanes or cycletracks everywhere else" is a depiction of YOUR vision of bike paradise, not mine. Thats not my POV - it's yours.
If it depicts sparewheel's personal desire for a portlandia-copenhagen-berlin mashup incorrectly, please illuminate.
surely it can't be the sellwood bridge in the traffic lane
Neither your vision of portlandia for bicyclists, or my vision of an better accommodated America match the lane control aspirations of the original poster and his compadres.