> It's not a rich city, like New York or San Francisco, with cash to dump into sprawling bike lanes ... It's great that New York can install ... high-end bike-s

> It's not a rich city, like New York or San Francisco, with cash to dump into sprawling bike lanes ... It's great that New York can install ... high-end bike-sharing programs. But ... Bike lanes can bestow great economic benefits, from reduced healthcare costs to reduced pollution, fewer fatalities on the roads, less congestion, less stunting of children's intellectual development, etc. It's a shame people are ignorant of these benefits and choose to disparage bike infrastructure as an example of profligate and unnecessary spending (I recently read another article doing the same for London's cycling infrastructure plans over the next decade). LSE Study: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/21/cycling-3bn-uk-economy-study http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/21/cycling-3... The Lancet: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jan/26/pollution.transportintheuk http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jan/26/pollution.... USC Study: http://econweb.umd.edu/~ham/test%20scores%20submit.pdf http://econweb.umd.edu/~ham/test%20scores%20submit.pdf [PDF] Economic Benefits: http://cyclingresourcecentre.org.au/page/cycling_benefits_economic http://cyclingresourcecentre.org.au/page/cycling_benefits_ec... More bike lanes, fewer gimmicky solar-powered trash cans, please.