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While it's great to see NYC bike ridership up to 21K per weekday, and touted as growing "faster than other modes of transportation", it's misleading when you co
by kosei 11y ago
While it's great to see NYC bike ridership up to 21K per weekday, and touted as growing "faster than other modes of transportation", it's misleading when you compare that the MTA has a ridership of 8.6 million daily. Currently that Bike Ridership number is a paltry 0.2% of the overall ridership.
So, kudos - and I hope they improve it dramatically, but it has a long way to go, and I'm skeptical of de Blasio's goal of getting it up to 6% in the near future.
http://web.mta.info/mta/network.htm http://web.mta.info/mta/network.htm
- cauterized 11y agoAt the very least, they'd have to quadruple both the bike lane mileage and the Citibike coverage.
- cmurf 11y agoI don't see how NYC gets to 1% let alone 6% without pulling out car lanes and converting them into two lane bike lanes which are immutable: no parking, no blocking. Now, they get blocked the instant someone opens a car door or double parks. With higher biking density comes different speed cycling so single lane biking doesn't scale. Denver has this crazy idea also that catering to bikes is easy and cheap, the mentality is that it's mainly just a matter of paint and "share the road" signage. Meanwhile there's no driver or cyclist education program on exactly how to share the road, so it's still adversarial "hey asshole YOU aren't sharing the road!"
- cauterized 11y agoThat's one of the reasons protected lanes have been so successful. They also help car traffic move faster by making double parking less tenable.
- panglott 11y agoTransit and cycling are quite complementary. Transit and auto traffic are more at odds.