Six lessons for Portland from the League's new 'Women Bike' report | Bike Portland



woman on a bike
Common, but not quite common enough.
(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Even in Portland, people who really ought to know better (links to FB) still claim now and then that biking is a thing for young dudes.
Still, in a town where only 31 percent of people on bikes tend to be female (it's about 25 percent nationally) we've got a long way to go until, as in Germany or the Netherlands, our biking population is evenly split by gender. Portland's failure to change this ratio for 10 years can be discouraging to people who think everyone deserves to feel welcome on a bike.
That's why there's a lot to celebrate in a new report by the League of American Bicyclists that rounds up dozens of statistics about women and bikes. Culled from industry reports, political polls and academic studies, a few of the report's figures are pretty surprising...

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