I do think you are nit picking on the first point. Yes, the writer was asking should we do it, but then suggesting where it should be done. On the second, there were multiple people that chimed in on Bicycle Austin about getting ticketed (it may have been by e-mail rather than the forum. This two tiered system means not all of the thread is seen online.) I am not responsible for the adjectives KVUE chooses to use in its search for higher ratings.

a poster recently suggested some guerrilla street painting to
carve out space for cyclists on Austin streets specifically on
parts of Parmer Lane and along the IH-35 access road

But the thing is … no poster suggested this. Instead, what was actually said –

The July issue of Bicycling magazine has a fascinating article on
DIY bike lanes. Seems a guerilla group of Los Angeles cyclists
painted their own lane… in a city which basically has none. It
lasted for about 100 hours before the city painted it over.
Should we do something like that in Austin? There’s drainage
grates that, at the very least, could be marked. And roads like
Parmer Lane east of I35 could be hit with an impromptu lane.

… he was asking if it should be done, not suggesting that it be done. It’s a minor nit, I know, but seemed to be enough to get KVUE to make a story on it. After all, their story says `One local cyclist, in fact, suggested that cyclists start doing the same thing here.’

I think KVUE reads your blog to look for dirt. Not that you should stop giving it to them, but be precise about what you say, because they seem pretty willing to take things out of context and run with it without actually confirming anything.

It happened back with the `Careful when you glide through that stop sign, it may cost you over $150′ story too. You said –

The Bicycle Austin forum was active over the weekend with multiple
reports of cyclists getting ticketed for failing to stop at stop
signs.

… but really, there was only *one* report of a cyclist ticketed there. (ATXBS had one more. Two total.) In any event, KVUE parlayed this into –

Austin’s cycling blogs lit up the Internet this weekend with
complaints about cyclists being targeted by Austin police and
receiving tickets for running through stop signs.

but that didn’t really happen. There were a few comments, but nothing was `lit up’.

http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/070809kvuebike-bkm.2070f93e.html

It’s pretty excellent, they even mistake some old route markers for a marathon/running event (I think it was the turkey trot) that happened up in my neighborhood for “rogue bike lanes”. Heh.