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November II. 2009
Bicycle Commuting Grows at Cascade
College responds to increased demand
If you were at the Cascade Cam pus
o f Portland C om m unity C ollege on
the first day o f fall classes the sight
was unavoidable - bike racks, jam
packed with, well, bicycles.
And the racks have been jam m ed
every day since.
K rystyna S olodenko is a student
at the north Portland cam pus who
rides to school and has been a par­
ticipant in these daily jam s.
"It was terrible finding a spot," she
said. "1 had to use a tree to lock my
bike. 1 have never seen so many bikes
on cam pus. It m ade me pretty happy
at the same time. It was aw esom e."
S olodenko, w ho recently im m i­
g rate d to the U n ite d S ta te s from
Ukraine, just got her citizenship in the
sum m er and is a student governm ent
outreach coordinator. T he psychol­
ogy m ajor said that riding bikes is
more normal back hom e in Ukraine
than driving a car so it was second
nature for her here to cycle to class.
"And it's a lot faster than taking
the bus," she said.
Cascade is by far the most bike-ori­
ented cam pus because o f its inner city
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location and proximity to TriM et bus
and Max line routes. According to a
PCC parking and transportation sur­
vey, 10 percent o f students at the cam ­
pus bike to class and 7 percent o f staff
and faculty bike. O verall, across the
entire district, 3 percent o f students
and staff bike to PCC locations.
T he crush o f bikers has been so
overw helm ing that the Cascade C am ­
pus installed a line o f new bike racks
betw een Terrell Hall and the Student
Services Building. The new rack has
increased the bike-parking capacity
by 4 0 b ic y cle s and alle v ia te s the
shortage o f spaces.
And if it isn't biking, it's the PCC
Shuttle. A ccording to fall term, year-
over-year num bers, shuttle ridership
has grown by 21 percent. The Rock
Creek Cam pus in northw est Portland
has surged the most - 48 percent.
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involved and miserable.
Bike racks are filled to capacity on the Cascade Campus of Portland
Community College. The north Portland school has been installing
more racks in recent days to meet a growing population of bicycle
commuters.
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o f the S y lv an ia C am p u s team that
participated in the Bicycle C om m ute
C h allen g e, a frien d ly co m p etitio n -
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Cascade C am pus C om m unity Re­
lations M anager Abe Proctor uses his
bike and the shuttle for his transpor­
tation needs.
"I get here pretty early on m ost
days, so I can usually find a place to
lock up my bike," said Proctor, who
has been a regular bike com m uter for
nearly three years. "But the spaces
fill up really fast. It seem s like more
and more people are biking to C as­
cade all the tim e, so the extra rack
space is really helpful."
P ro cto r said he appreciates bike
com m uting for a num ber o f reasons,
not the least o f w hich is the am ount
o f money he saves.
"W hen y o u b u rn z e ro g a so lin e
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less, y o u r m o n th ly in su ran c e bill
d e c re a se s as w ell. A nd it's m uch
ch e ap e r than a gym m em b ersh ip . 1
arriv e at cam p u s alert, fo cu sed and
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