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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The counts could help scooters and skaters form a more powerful political bloc.
As Portland’s transportation thinkers look to a new post-pandemic mobility paradigm, there’s one type of vehicle that just can’t seem to break into the conversation: skateboards. Despite sharing many of the same benefits as bicycling and walking, there are no skateboard advocates on the city’s various modal committees. PBOT has advisory committees devoted to bicycle … Read more
Three of the four have recently been redesigned to be more neighborhood-friendly.
As bike advocates learned long ago, you can’t start improving things until you start measuring them.
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