One year and 14.7 million miles of biking have passed since New York opened its bike-share program, in what most people assume to be the dangerous city in the world for cyclists. Well, it turns out that, not only were the extreme portents of doom a little over-heated, they were flat out wrong. With over 8 million trips under its belt, Citibike is reporting that they had not a single reported casualty using their system. This is great news for cycling advocates. The longer a city like New York can go without reporting a tragedy, the more sensible bike-share programs will seem in other (decidedly less dangerous) cities.SOURCE: Will Oremus, Slate.com, http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/30/nyc_citi_bike_zero_fatalities_in_new_york_city_bike_share_program_s_first.html
No comments:
Post a Comment