Around here we love data, so as soon as I sent the latest safety in numbers<\/a> data around the office, it took Andy less than an hour to try to one-up me. He passed along this graph showing Portland\u2019s expenditures on biking and walking, transit, and motor vehicles (1995 \u2013 2010) along side the number of new trips by those modes (1990 \u2013 2008). There were increases in the number of commuters for all three modes. What the graph makes clear is how cost effective the biking and walking investments were. The city spent about 11 times the amount on motor vehicle infrastructure that they spent on active transportation per new commuter.<\/em><\/p>\n Hopefully, you can read the graph. If not, I\u2019m happy to email it. (Request it at darren [at] bikeleague.org.) The blue bar is the total expenditures (1995 \u2013 2010). The red bar is the increase is daily Portland commuters. The black line towards the bottom is the estimated cost of complete Portland\u2019s 2030 Bicycle Master Plan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n![\"Portland](\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Portland-Regional-Expenditures-and-New-Trips-300x236.png\" "\\"Portland")
<\/p>\n~Darren Flusche
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