Annual city survey is latest to show Portlanders biking more, driving less
Fully 9 percent of Portlanders bike to work during the summer.
Fully 9 percent of Portlanders bike to work during the summer.
It’s the highest bike-commuting rate ever recorded for a U.S. city of more than 200,000 residents.
Portlanders have started noticing something they haven’t been accustomed to for a decade.
It’d be a new, lightning-fast way of planning bike infrastructure, the founder says.
Biking keeps rising in Portland’s bike-friendliest neighborhoods, but it seems to be dropping elsewhere.
After eight years of failing to add housing units nearly as fast as new residents were arriving, Multnomah County nearly kept pace in 2014.
Portland: the city of bikeways that never sleep.
The Great Recession has left plenty of marks on the Portland area. Here’s one of the happier ones.
Do bikes count? They could.
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.
Is America’s latest bike boom coming to an end? Or is it just moving to different cities?
Massive temporary shifts from bike to other modes already happen regularly.