So much for that 2030 Master Plan.

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May we please please please get a bike rental program? I would sooo love that. Anyone know a way to make that happen?

Hopefully at some point Amanda Fritz will realize that she is dead wrong in her stance of blocking the bike share for "safety reasons". Bike shares in the US have served up 23 million rides without a single death and very few injuries. The data says she should be supporting bike share for safety reasons, not opposing it because she once saw someone do something dangerous on a bike.

Well us bike NYC people are happy for a brief moment and then quickly we return to our never ending bike advocacy work at hand. Lots to improve, even if we win this somewhat symbolic accolade: better bridge access, expansion of bike share, expansion of NYPD bike patrols, bike parking, upgrading painted lanes to physically protected lanes, improving connectivity of the bike network, wayfaring signs, getting more kids and teens on bikes, and on and on.
Candidate Bill de Blasio, now Mayor, stated a goal of 5% mode share of commuter trips. That is, by some estimates, between two and four times the current bicycling levels. To reach that lofty goal NYC would have to redouble its efforts in all the areas listed above, with the support/pressure from the bicycle advocacy community.
Kudos to Transportation Alternatives and its thousands of dedicated volunteers who have supported its bold and dynamic work.
I don't doubt that Portland will continue to do great things in their own bicycling world, inspiring us from across the country. In the meantime, perhaps the top ranking given to the Big Apple might inspire a re-energized Portland cycling community to get going again.
Sincerely,
Cantor Ben Kintisch
Of the Brooklyn Activist Committee
Transportation Alternatives, NYC

I am tired of Portland's narcissism. Unattractive & troubling. BTW- if you are from out of town, please understand that most of Portland has crap bike infrastructure because the central city sucks up all the resources while enjoying tax breaks. And, we have a somewhat douchey cycling culture. The BTA is to biking what marriage is to satisfying sex.

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May we please please please get a bike rental program? I would sooo love that. Anyone know a way to make that happen?

No, we cannot have bike share. Bike share is just one more gift to big property owners downtown and scofflaws like AirBnB. Let AirBnB give us 10 million for a bike share sponsorship. Anais, please go to Outer SE Portland-
a planning disaster on a massive scale. Go see the empty storefronts in Lents- that's why you can't have bike share. Publically funded Bike Share is unfair to the majority of Portlanders. There's way too much "ooh I love that" in City Hall, and very little in the way of fairness and practicality.

I'd like to see Tacoma WA get to a point where it might even get into the top ten.