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A station for Biketown, the city's new bicycle-sharing system Bicycle mural in Portland, 2014. Bicycle use in Portland, Oregon has been growing rapidly, having nearly tripled since 2001; for example, bicycle traffic on four of the Willamette River bridges has increased from 2,855 before 1992 to over 16,000 in 2008, partly due to improved facilities. [1]
Planning for a modern bicycle-sharing system for Portland began in 2009, under the direction of PBOT. [3] Beginning in 1994, a group of Portlanders experimented with a free community bike sharing system called the "Yellow Bike Project"; the program, inspired by a similar scheme in Amsterdam and operated by the Community Cycling Center, was declared a failure three years later after many of the ...
Approximately 8% of commuters bike to work in Portland, the highest proportion of any major U.S. city and about 10 times the national average. [34] In July 2016, Portland introduce a bike share program known as Biketown, [35] initially running with 1,000 bikes.
The Street Trust had its origins as the Portland Area Bicycle Coalition, a volunteer group founded in 1991 after a resident was not allowed to bring his bike on board a TriMet bus. The group submitted a petition with over 5000 signatures to local authorities requesting that buses be equipped with bike racks . [ 3 ]
The 206-mile Seattle to Portland Presented by Alaska Airlines (STP) — the largest and most iconic group cycling event in the Pacific Northwest — will return on July 17 and 18, according to ...
This is a tower of minibikes anchored to a bicycle rack at the Zoobomb meeting point. These are spare bikes that are used as loaners for would-be Zoobombers who don't have their own bike. The pile has become a local landmark. [3] [5] In March 2009, a new pile was dedicated, in a ceremony attended by Portland mayor Sam Adams. [6]
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