‘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.
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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.
Biking matters most to lowest-income local households, new data shows
In the Portland area, the lower your household’s income, the more likely you are to use a bike to get to work.
Surprise! Typical Portland bike commute is shorter than driving
Crossing the Broadway Bridge. “I’d love to bike to work, but it takes too long.” Actually, nope. Well, depending on how you look at it.
From New Orleans to New Haven, driving is on the decline
The use of cars is on the longest slide ever recorded, one that seems only partly related to economic trends.
Portland transportation isn’t ‘stagnating’ after all, city director says
Four months after joining the Portland Bureau of Transportation as its director, Leah Treat is walking back an idea she shared in her job interview.
4 things U.S. college towns could teach planners about biking
It’s time for urban planners to stop ignoring how well college towns work and start learning from them.
Census: Portland biking stalls for fifth year while other cities climb
Source: Census American Community Survey. Image by BikePortland. Portland’s hard-won status as “America’s bike capital” hasn’t looked less secure since it claimed the title in 2005. The number of Portlanders who get to work primarily by bike was statistically unchanged in 2012, ticking from 6.3 percent to 6.1 percent of the city’s working population. Across … Read more
Low-car households account for 60% of Portland’s growth since 2005
There’s a very simple reason why Portland’s real estate market is shifting fast: Over the last eight years, households whose members get around without cars account for about three-fifths of Portland’s growth.
What caused Portland’s biking boom?
Before 2002, this was just another outdoorsy city on the West Coast; after 2008, it’s been just one more mid-size metro area with an increasingly lively central city. But something strange and wonderful happened in between.
2012 PBOT bicycle counts reveal 3.3% annual growth
It just keeps growing, and growing, and…(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) In a report released this morning, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) says bicycle traffic counts for 2012 were up 3.3 percent over 2011 levels. These counts, which have been conducted annually since 1991, provide an important barometer for how many people are riding bikes … Read more