Way to go Portland! To think some people think the bike lanes and bike parking are a waste.

Part of the reason Amsterdam has that high of a percentage of bikers is because the streets are ancient and thin, and some streets do not even allow vehicles. Maybe if Portland turned all of its major streets into Canals then we would be able to match Amsterdam... until then...

PFFT! My Bike Commute Challenge Team has logged 1517 miles so far.

Also, look at this article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.…

"The city has doubled the number of bike lanes from 100 miles of bikeways around Portland to over 300 miles today. "

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Isn't Amsterdam pancake flat and postage-stamp small compared to PDX?

That is a very nice graph for MS Paint.

Does anybody know why people stopped using mass transit in 2007?

Robert, yes. Amsterdam is both more compact and much, much flatter than Portland. It also rains much less. And there's more jobs to commute to.

Am I the only one who finds that graph kind of depressing? Despite all the gains in cycling (which are exaggerated by having everything starting at zero - it's still a small percentage of the total), the number of people driving alone hasn't dropped. The same number of cars are on the road, just with fewer people in them. If we can do something about that (decent park and ride facilities would be a good start), we'd really have something to cheer about...

Is there an original press release for this information? Just curious...

More people are biking. Yay! The same numbers of people are still driving. Boo! This info can be spun as both positive and negative news. Yay boo!

The reason the number of bikers have increased is that all the hipsters from Brooklyn are invading Portland, thanks to how the New York times fellates this city.

Whether they have jobs is a different story...

Mmmmm not so, our annoying hipsters are staying put in droves in Williamsburg, I see them in packs hunting girls with their skinny jeans and little U-locks hanging out their back pockets.

They are also on their bikes which is increasing in number here too. Try again LawyerPepper and great job Portland!

Wow, the number of posts since mine has doubled, from 4 to 14!

Thomas (and anyone else who cares),

yes, the mayor's office sent out a press release with some of the info in this post. Send me an email and I'll forward it along to you!

smirk (at) portlandmercury (dot) com

I don't know that it's particularly "depressing" that the number of drivers has remained constant. Considering that it has more than likely gone up everywhere else. I mean a whole new crop of folks turn 18 every year right? not to mention immigrants.