City will celebrate one year, one million bike trips over Hawthorne Bridge

Bike trips are worth celebrating.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) plans on making some noise about the success of cycling on the Hawthorne Bridge. To toast the upcoming one-year anniversary of the automated bicycle counter and the 1 millionth trip of 2013, PBOT is hosting a special “Breakfast on the Bridges” … Read more


Hawthorne Bridge bike counter has logged over 1,000,000 trips since August

Trip number 1,000,828 at 5:26 pm yesterday.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Yesterday at about 4:00 pm the bicycle counter on the Hawthorne Bridge logged its 1,000,000th trip. The counter went live on August 8th and reached 500,000 trips just three months later. Yesterday was a fitting day to break the 1 million mark as the daily … Read more