Stumptown,

With all due respect, your final five paragraphs are a word-for-word reprint of a comment that I placed on bikeportland.org. See comment 17 on this post:

http://bikeportland.org/2008/02/06/mayor-potter-responds-to-bta-action-alert/#comments

I appreciate that you agree with my sentiment and there are no hard feelings. However in the future please be kind enough to credit the original writer when you are reprinting any info - even from blogs.

All the best,

Tony