  Images from recent radio surveys were used to determine the radio position
angles for over 2000 extended radio galaxies with host galaxies brighter than
m$_{r}\sim$18 mag. For 1509 of these their optical axis ratios were obtained,
and for a subset of 857 also their major axis position angle. It is confirmed
that the majority of radio galaxies have their jets or lobes ejected within
$\sim30^{\circ}$ of the optical minor axis of their host, but no evidence is
found for the minor-axis alignment to be stronger for physically larger radio
sources, nor for the presence of a secondary population of brightest cluster
galaxies with radio axes near to parallel to their optical major axes.
