
Written by Melissa Hincha-Ownby Bike stencil on Portland, Oregon's bike routes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Bloomberg Rankings has released a list of bike-to-work rates in 25 major U.S. cities and Portland, Ore., came out on top. In 2010, nearly 16,000 workers biked to work. That’s 5.44 percent of the city’s total workforce and it represents an increase of 1.29 percentage points from the 2006 survey. Whether it was the need to cut back on fuel bills because of the Great Recession, the desire to get healthier or simply a better choice for the environment, biking to work increased during the five-year period examined by Bloomberg Rankings. Portland is a veritable mecca for bike owners. Bloomberg’s follow-up story highlights the growing bike trend in the city: families ...
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