Census: Portland bike commuting laid low again in year before Covid
2019 was another year with little growth in bike commuting, in Portland or elsewhere in the U.S.
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2019 was another year with little growth in bike commuting, in Portland or elsewhere in the U.S.
Here’s what it might mean about the future.
The most recent data collected by the U.S. Census’s American Community Survey (ACS) shows that the number of Portlanders who commute to work by bicycle has dropped from 4.4% in 2006 to 4.2% in 2007. The survey asked, “How did you usually get to work last week?”, and 10,987 people (out of just over 280,000) … Read more
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