Bike vs. Bus vs. Car in Portland! How biking is faster, cheaper, healthier and better for the planet

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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 --https://youtu.be/gZdnl7wEE9g - High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: Texas Edition -- https://youtu.be/Ci4SbjBnqkk - High Speed Rail vs. Air vs. Car Race: California Edition -- https://youtu.be/3Cvt8QA4SvY - Transit/Beach Connections -- https://youtu.be/z5p8gSdYVLo Resources: CO2 assumptions: https://www.ourstreetsmpls.org/does_bike_commuting_affect_your_carbon_footprint_and_how_much Portland Bureau of Transportation Neighborhood Greenways 101: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/554110 Inrix ParkMe app: https://www.parkme.com/portland-or-parking Gas prices from https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=OR TriMet fares and HOP pass https://trimet.org/fares/index.htm Climate fata for Portland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon#Climate TriMet Frequent Express (Division Transit Project): https://trimet.org/fx/ Bike commuter check at https://commuterbenefits.com/ and https://www.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, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108021380 Bus picture for thumbnail By Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://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: [email protected]