A Cycle Track is a dedicated bike lane common in many European countries and Portland just unveiled one. NYC has one too.
More on the Cycle Track from an Oregonlive report that claims bicycle commuting contributes $2.6 billion to the Portland local economy every year (even as supporters of bike commuting that seems like bike-voodoo economics).
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Actually Cortright (the researcher quoted) says *all* alt-transportation (including transit and peds) not just bikes puts $800 million into local eonomy—$2.6 Billion savings. Bikes are merely part of the equation.
(via Joseph Rose)
Yes that makes much more sense and we don’t disagree with Cortright. The headline reads, “Bike economics 101: How the cycle track pumps green into the local economy,” and continues on with the numbers and doesn’t break them down by bike. Read it three times and the takeaway still implies that a dedicated bike lane is pumping money into the economy. I’m sure it does, but don’t see how that’s millions. Cycle Tracks are controversial enough without attaching money to them like that. This issue seems touchy, as if it’s come up before. As I told Rose, we’re not picking a fight on this, but [saw your tweet](http://twitter.com/ephanypdx/status/3693811995)
> Bike economics 101: How the cycletrack pumps green into the local economy. Helps save $2.6B a year.
And that also implies that a dedicated bike lane is worth millions. And OK. Twitter is not a good medium for debating numbers like this and thanks for coming here to comment.
I invited Joseph to take the debate off on Twitter and he declined. Doesn’t look like he’s responded to criticism of the post on his blog either.