Portland Rocks: Check Out Their Bike Rush Hour

That's the Kind of Rush Hour We Like to SeeI wasn't so long ago that Portland became the first major U.S. city to win the top prize for bicycle friendliness, which is the Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community award given by the League of American Bicyclists. Our friends at StreetFilms just released a short film that illustrates exactly just how vibrant the Portland cyclist community is: Bike rush hour on the Hawthorne bridge. The video speaks for itself, but for those of you who like numbers: "20% of all traffic on the Hawthorne Bridge is bikes. And, Portland's number of cyclists has risen 600% in the last fifteen years and shows no sign of letting up." Awesome.