Post any interesting links in the comment section.
Local
State
- Baiku: Very Short Poems Made While Riding A Bicycle
- Program teaches children with disabilities how to ride bikes
- Bicycle Camp for Kids with Special Needs
National
- Bikes Will Be “Incredibly Sexy and Utterly Normal”
- Bike industry “tip sheet” helps make business case for funding
- Why Carmageddon (and the Wolfpack Victory) Matters
- Rich People Love Sidewalks, And Other Livability Lessons From USDOT
- The Real Lessons of Carmageddon – Angelenos Aren’t Idiots, We Have Too Many Highways
- TriMet’s largest Bike & Ride opens in Beaverton
- First look: SW Ankeny is now carfree
- Separated Bike Lanes Will Get More Women on Bikes
International
- Commuter Jeans?
- In the Alps, Climbing Mile by Painful Mile Into Tour History
- EU Plans to Renew 48.5% Tariff on Chinese Bikes for Three Years
- New European Bike Tour Combines Spain, France, and a bit of Lance
Population Density in Tucson, AZ by Zip Code
http://zipatlas.com/us/az/tucson/zip-code-comparison/population-density.htm
Population Density in Portland, OR by Zip Code
http://zipatlas.com/us/or/portland/zip-code-comparison/population-density.htm
And, if you click on the yellow field above the upper left hand corner of the map you will get a drop down menu of other maps for the city.
Two Red Star caveats:
1) Zipatlas doesn’t seem to cite its sources at the website…might be Census 2010, Census 2000, other sources.
2) The transpo/lifestyle/political issues are more complex and nuanced than maps can present. If they are valid, they are a start point?
So, how much has ridership increased in 25 years? I don’t think hard numbers exist, but my sense is there are more but not proportionately more.
More bike shops now than then? Anyone have a 1986 phone book?
Gas prices up about 70% (in 2010 dollars).
Bike infrastructure has increased greatly since then.
But so has the sprawl.
El Tour participants: through the roof.
Just random thoughts while thinking about where all the riders are.
The median household income in Portland is $11,000 higher than in Tucson. Portland is very white. About 80% white. Tucson is 49% non Hispanic white. Tucson metro is right about a million in population, Portland metro is over 2 million. As Ryn likes to point out these are very different demographic, ethnic, geographic and economic entities. Ian Johnson thinks $6 a gallon gas will solve it, perhaps and don’t I wish.
If Portland maximized the effect of what it has (high-paid white people) to create its bicycle utopia, then Tucson needs to maximize the effect of what it has to create its bicycle utopia (not Portland’s). If Tucson’s ridership numbers could reach Portland’s and the added numbers be attributed to tourism/vacationers, that would be something. We do have weather and terrrain.
In other words we need a velo? works for me.