1.0Sightline Institutehttps://www.sightline.orgClark Williams-Derryhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/clark-williams-derry/Commuting in Seattle and Portland - Sightline Instituterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="RWkI8ekJtp"><a href="https://www.sightline.org/2012/02/28/commuting-in-seattle-and-portland/">Commuting in Seattle and Portland</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.sightline.org/2012/02/28/commuting-in-seattle-and-portland/embed/#?secret=RWkI8ekJtp" width="600" height="338" title="“Commuting in Seattle and Portland” — Sightline Institute" data-secret="RWkI8ekJtp" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/means-of-transportation-to-work-work-in-city.gif645518Portland, OR has a national reputation as a transit powerhouse. Despite some recent funding woes---which are depressingly common for US transit systems---the City of Roses' combination of bus, light rail, street car, and most recently aerial tram transit has earned national kudos. US News and World Report, for example, recently ranked Portland’s transit system as the the fifth-best in the country, trailing cities like New York and Boston. Yet as we’ve mentioned before, data from the US Census shows that Seattle has far more transit commuting than Portland. It’s really not all that close: in Seattle, about 21 percent of workers got to their jobs on transit from 2006 through 2010. But in the Portland, the figure is just 12 percent.