Originally Posted by B. Carfree

Mia is on record as working to separate cyclists from motorists. Very few people in her home base of the PNW believe that her motivations are truly for the benefit of cyclists since the episode a few years ago in Portland where she threw a temper tantrum over a cyclist who was legally taking the lane while riding on a street a few blocks away from a designated "bike blvd". (For the record, she was in a car and felt the cyclist had inconvenienced her.) She then compounded this by (unsuccessfully) lobbying the legislature to expand Oregon's mandatory use law to require cyclists to stay off of roads that are within a quarter-mile of a road with bike lane facilities or a bike path. Good luck doing any shopping when you can't ride on the streets with the stores.

The only word that I can think of that adequately describes her views is segregationist, as in separate and unequal. Since she's not a party to this thread, a flame war is obviously not possible. Is this an emotional response from you I detect? There's nothing emotional about pointing out her style and motivations, it's just the way she rolls and it's rather nice that, in the case of Citi Bikes, there's someone there to clean up the mess she left. Back in Portland, the mess she left has been a part of the reason that the number of people riding bikes hasn't increased in five years (while other cities, including NYC, are seeing steady growth).