As noted in the comments to GMN, the NYT fellated Portland yet again this weekend… this time about our city’s bike ecomony. (Anyone care to predict the next PDX topic the NYT will write an ode to?)

The city regularly ranks at the top of Bicycling Magazine’s list of the best cycling cities and has the nation’s highest percentage of workers who commute by bike, about 3.5 percent, according to the Census Bureau. Drivers here are largely respectful of riders, and some businesses give up parking spaces to make way for bike racks.

“Our intentions are to be as sustainable a city as possible,” Mr. [Sam] Adams said. “That means socially, that means environmentally and that means economically. The bike is great on all three of those factors. You just can’t get a better transportation return on your investment than you get with promoting bicycling.”

(Meanwhile, in Seattle, a writer at our sister paper compares Seattle’s attitude of grudgingly accomodating cyclists—one of whom was shot with a BB gun during his commute home last week—with Portland’s cultivation of “a culture of cycling.”)