As Portland’s biking stagnation continues, it faces an unfamiliar problem: more congestion
Portlanders have started noticing something they haven’t been accustomed to for a decade.
bike counts
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 housing supply still isn’t keeping up with population, but it’s falling behind more slowly
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’s first-ever 24-hour bike count shows bike traffic on Ankeny never stops
Portland: the city of bikeways that never sleep.
Multnomah County car registration is down 8% since 2007, and isn’t rebounding
The Great Recession has left plenty of marks on the Portland area. Here’s one of the happier ones.
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.
Census shows big leaps for biking in a few cities, but Portland inches backward
Is America’s latest bike boom coming to an end? Or is it just moving to different cities?
‘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.
Nice new online maps show biking rates by neighborhood
A new feature on the Census site is a very nice interactive map that quickly plots 22 years of commuting data to the tract level.