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Posted on August 26, 2010 by Dave Feucht

This morning when I arrived at work, I went in and grabbed a coffee and decided to just go sit outside, sip the coffee, enjoy the nice cool morning while it was still cool, and do a bit of people watching. In the 15 minutes or so that I was sitting there, here is what I saw.

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  • Anne

    Ooh! I saw that same person in the tiny shorts and the frilly pink top on my way to work this morning too. Very noticeable.

    It was a beautiful commute.

  • portlandize.com

    @Anne: Hah, that's awesome :) That guy came riding in from the left of where I was sitting, rode past me, looped around, then came back and headed out straight ahead of where I was sitting and back North along Moody Ave. It was definitely one of those "woah" moments :)

  • Carlsson

    Lost a bet maybe??!!

  • Traci

    Such a nice sight – tons of bikes rather than cars! I consider myself lucky if I see more than 3 bikes between my house and work (approx. 6.5 miles). Not counting the university campus, of course. And I honestly don't think there are that many bikes in one place even on campus!

  • Walk Eagle Rock

    Great stuff! Portland is really getting somewhere… can't wait till percent of bike trips is up at 15 or 20% Right now it is 8% of trips are bike bike, right?

  • portlandize.com

    @Traci: this is a bit of an unusual sight in Portland having quite this many bikes in one place (hundreds parked together everyday), but I am feeling these days like everywhere I go I see people on bikes. The other day, we got held up on the Hawthorne bridge on the way home from work, as there was a barge coming up the river, and coming down off the bridge, there were about 3-4 cars on the road, and a huge swarm of bikes all across the road. It was a great feeling :)

    @Walk Eagle Rock: well, one of the problems with the counts, is they only count "work commute" trips, and I kind of have a feeling we would get a higher percentage of trips by bike if they counted ALL trips – there are *a lot* of people out by bike in the evenings to go to dinner, drinks, movies, etc – a lot of people go to shows and special events by bike – and I have a feeling a lot of people who have longer work commutes but live close to much of the other stuff they do ride bikes for almost all trips *except* work (my wife being one example).

    So yeah, we have 8% of work commutes by bike, but I think we're actually doing better than that overall. Of course, that's just my subjective feeling, but it seems like it.

    Cheers!