{"id":77367423,"date":"2007-06-15T10:57:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T10:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=77367423"},"modified":"2007-06-15T10:57:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T10:57:03","slug":"numbers-state-the-obvious-portlanders-love-bikes-and-busses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=77367423","title":{"rendered":"Numbers State The Obvious, Portlanders Love Bikes And Busses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Theen &#8211; OPB<br \/>\nThe percentage of Portlanders who bike to work is 8 times the national average. That&#8217;s according to data from the 2005 American Community Survey, or ACS.<br \/>\nThe ACS is an annual, and census officials say, more thorough version of the once-a-decade census.<br \/>\nPortland City Auditor Gary Blackmer says having so much accurate yearly data allows policy-makers to raise up to date questions with city leaders.<br \/>\nGary Blackmer: &quot;There&#8217;s been huge growth in bicycling, in walking. Let&#8217;s focus on multi-modal transportation. Let&#8217;s not say it&#8217;s either cars or mass transit. What are the other ways that we can get people to their jobs.&quot;<br \/>\nPortland and Multnomah County were original test areas for the American Community Survey a decade ago. The ACS will officially replace the long-form census in 2010.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/opb\/news.newsmain?action=article&amp;ARTICLE_ID=1097796\">https:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/opb\/news.newsmain?action=article&amp;ARTICLE_ID=1097796<\/a>oldId.20070615105703804<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Theen &#8211; OPB The percentage of Portlanders who bike to work is 8 times the national average. That&#8217;s according to data from the 2005 American Community Survey, or ACS. The ACS is an annual, and census officials say, more thorough version of the once-a-decade census. Portland City Auditor Gary Blackmer says having so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=77367423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Numbers State The Obvious, Portlanders Love Bikes And Busses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77367423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77367423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77367423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77367423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77367423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77367423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77367423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}