Annual city survey is latest to show Portlanders biking more, driving less
Fully 9 percent of Portlanders bike to work during the summer.
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Progress for Portland: Surge of 5,000 new bike commuters brings city rate to 7%
It’s the highest bike-commuting rate ever recorded for a U.S. city of more than 200,000 residents.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.