CityNerd | Bike vs. Bus vs. Car in Portland! How biking is faster, cheaper, healthier and better for the planet @CityNerd | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Today we go biking in Portland, Oregon, one of North America's best biking cities. But we also go driving and bus-riding! We're going to run a race of sorts, comparing the daily journeys of three people with identical commutes, but who choose to take three different modes of transportation: biking, driving, and riding the bus.
Biking is many things to many people: biking as transportation, biking as exercise, biking for weight loss. It can be all of these things. But it's when we compare biking vs. driving and biking vs. taking the bus that the differences really become clear.
We'll compare the complete cost of each commute -- not just gas and transit fares, but insurance, maintenance, and depreciation as well. We'll compare the time spent commuting, including discussion of the quality of the commute time. And we'll look at other factors, such as calories expended and externalities imposed on the rest of society -- particularly emissions and delay.
Come along for a ride through the urbanist paradise / anarchist haven of Portland, Oregon and see which mode comes out on top of the competition!
Other CityNerd vides referenced in this video:
- High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: Canada Edition --youtu.be/gZdnl7wEE9g
- High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: Texas Edition -- youtu.be/Ci4SbjBnqkk
- High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: California Edition -- youtu.be/3Cvt8QA4SvY
- Transit/Beach Connections -- youtu.be/z5p8gSdYVLo
Resources:
CO2 assumptions: ourstreetsmpls.org/does_bike_commuting_affect_your_carbon_footprint_and_how_much
Portland Bureau of Transportation Neighborhood Greenways 101: portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/554110
Inrix ParkMe app: parkme.com/portland-or-parking
Gas prices from gasprices.aaa.com/?state=OR
TriMet fares and HOP pass trimet.org/fares/index.htm
Climate fata for Portland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon#Climate
TriMet Frequent Express (Division Transit Project): trimet.org/fx
Bike commuter check at commuterbenefits.com and bikeleague.org
Photo Credits:
Portland White Stag Sign Drone Video by Meysam Soheili from Pexels
Travel Icons car bike and bus from Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
Honda Civic By MercurySable99 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108021380
Bus picture for thumbnail By Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27659943
Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)
Twitter: @nerd4cities
Instagram: @nerd4cities
Contact: nerd4cities@gmail.com
Today we go biking in Portland, Oregon, one of North America's best biking cities. But we also go driving and bus-riding! We're going to run a race of sorts, comparing the daily journeys of three people with identical commutes, but who choose to take three different modes of transportation: biking, driving, and riding the bus.
Biking is many things to many people: biking as transportation, biking as exercise, biking for weight loss. It can be all of these things. But it's when we compare biking vs. driving and biking vs. taking the bus that the differences really become clear.
We'll compare the complete cost of each commute -- not just gas and transit fares, but insurance, maintenance, and depreciation as well. We'll compare the time spent commuting, including discussion of the quality of the commute time. And we'll look at other factors, such as calories expended and externalities imposed on the rest of society -- particularly emissions and delay.
Come along for a ride through the urbanist paradise / anarchist haven of Portland, Oregon and see which mode comes out on top of the competition!
Other CityNerd vides referenced in this video:
- High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: Canada Edition --youtu.be/gZdnl7wEE9g
- High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: Texas Edition -- youtu.be/Ci4SbjBnqkk
- High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: California Edition -- youtu.be/3Cvt8QA4SvY
- Transit/Beach Connections -- youtu.be/z5p8gSdYVLo
Resources:
CO2 assumptions: ourstreetsmpls.org/does_bike_commuting_affect_your_carbon_footprint_and_how_much
Portland Bureau of Transportation Neighborhood Greenways 101: portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/554110
Inrix ParkMe app: parkme.com/portland-or-parking
Gas prices from gasprices.aaa.com/?state=OR
TriMet fares and HOP pass trimet.org/fares/index.htm
Climate fata for Portland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon#Climate
TriMet Frequent Express (Division Transit Project): trimet.org/fx
Bike commuter check at commuterbenefits.com and bikeleague.org
Photo Credits:
Portland White Stag Sign Drone Video by Meysam Soheili from Pexels
Travel Icons car bike and bus from Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
Honda Civic By MercurySable99 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108021380
Bus picture for thumbnail By Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27659943
Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)
Twitter: @nerd4cities
Instagram: @nerd4cities
Contact: nerd4cities@gmail.com
