0.5% of U.S. commuters bike to work.
5% take public transport.
80% drive.
Mayor Bloomberg is trying mightily hard to build bike lanes and change the commuting culture of New York City. He may well succeed, and other cities may yet follow.
Here’s hoping we’ll all soon live in places as liv- and bike-able as Copenhagen.
But you don’t have to head to California or China to realize that it’ll be a bit of a challenge to shift a major portion of the population from cars onto bikes altogether—and to do so in time to avoid having the global number of internal combustion engines double from 1 to 2 billion by the end of this decade.
