you realize you're commenting on the city with the greatest participation in bicycling in the entire country, don't you? B CArfree's commentary on both portland and davis are so skewed his commentary loses all credibility. What does spare wheel think of riding the sellwood bridge? ever ridden it solo in the lane at rush hour? I have. Is it 'quite short' like B Carfree describes it? of course not, it's well over a thousand feet in length, as it crosses the willamatte just like the rest of the bridges in that part of Portland. Would you ever consider it one of the most pleasant places to ride in all of portland? I didn't think so.

B carfree's commentary about bicycling, as seductive as it may sound, rings hollow.

Davis is the city with the greatest participation in cycling in the country. "Build it and they will ride" did happen in Davis.


I'm sorry you're having a hard time understanding what I'm posting. Waving a white flag? Hardly. You sound like General Lee at the Appomattox courthouse.

That petrified "the sky is falling, the sky is falling" routine you seem to fall victim to at every suggestion of improving cycling in Portland hardly seems productive.



Obviously, you missed the real bike advocacy cycling report from last week, got confused the civic booster club's white paper was the important cycling report issued last week in Portland.

Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Oregon's "Blueprint for World Class Cycling"


I certainly hope you read the BTA report, spare wheel, if the white paper of the booster club got you into such paroxysms.

To step cycling up to the next level in portland, the BTA recommends a combination of cycle tracks, bike boulevards, paths, bike lanes and regular streets too, just like me and a lot of other people.