thoughts, more in sadness

[davidbonn]

For the record, I voted against the sale.

Personally, the very best thing about ACA has always been this forum and the community here.  The rest of the value proposition is (to me) not that great and I suspect that in most cases other organizations might do those things just as well or better.  With a handful of exceptions.

With both changes in their products and services over the last couple of years and the ongoing drama outlined in this forum, I concluded a while ago that my finite donation dollars would be more productively spent on other organizations.  For me at the moment that is mostly the Rails-to-Trails conservancy and Bikepacking Roots.

If I could find an organization that effectively advocated for on-pavement bicycle travel that would fill a notable gap.  Although I'm wondering if we could have separate associations for distinct routes, kind of like the PCT and AT and CDT have for their respective trails.

[DW]

If I could find an organization that effectively advocated for on-pavement bicycle travel that would fill a notable gap.  Although I'm wondering if we could have separate associations for distinct routes, kind of like the PCT and AT and CDT have for their respective trails.

David,

The League of American Bicyclists (LAB) in DC https://bikeleague.org/ does lots of advocacy work.

[Gordon02]

Yes, the League of American Bicyclists does a lot of advocacy work, but I was alarmed by its total lack of responsiveness, even to hand written letters, in addition to emails. No apparent community at LAB.   This experience of mine was '23-'25.  Respectfully, Peter in Vermont

[CyndiS]

Agreed, the LAB is primarily involved in federal lobbying for dollars for bike and ped infrastructure around the country- which they do very well- and they run the Bicycle Friendly America program, which helps state and local advocates in securing infrastructure and education projects for communities, businesses and universities. Although they are a membership organization, the sense of community does not exist like it does here at ACA.