City of Portland annual bike counts will include scooter riders for first time ever
The counts could help scooters and skaters form a more powerful political bloc.
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City counts reveal data behind Portland’s precipitous drop in cycling
At least we know the job that lies ahead.
PBOT’s new initiative to incentivize downtown bike and transit commuters
Free coffee and gift cards to local businesses are a nice perk, but some advocates want to see more structural change to increase bike and bus commutes.
PSU researchers: ‘Data fusion’ can help cities count bikes better
It’s always fun to see the Tilikum Crossing bike counter tick up as you pedal across the bridge, checking out how many other people have biked on the same route that day. But bike counters are an important tool beyond just novelty. People working to plan bike infrastructure projects – and acquire government funding and … Read more
City installs new high-tech counter on Eastbank Esplanade path
It’s watching you.
How was your ride? Portland mobile startup hopes to gather 5,000 answers every week
It’d be a new, lightning-fast way of planning bike infrastructure, the founder says.
Portland bike counts up in eastside grid, down in east and southwest
Biking keeps rising in Portland’s bike-friendliest neighborhoods, but it seems to be dropping elsewhere.
Portland’s first-ever 24-hour bike count shows bike traffic on Ankeny never stops
Portland: the city of bikeways that never sleep.
This $50 device could change bike planning forever
Do bikes count? They could.
Hawthorne Bridge bike trips up just 0.4% in 2014
Over 1.7 million trips in 2014. (Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) As of yesterday, there were 1,712,172 bicycle trips across Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge in 2014. That’s an impressive number — but it represents just a paltry 0.4 percent increase over last year’s total.
‘Day without the bicycle’ follow-up: How to make 1/3 of Portland’s bikers vanish
Massive temporary shifts from bike to other modes already happen regularly.