“over 8700 people commuted DAILY to Manhattan by bicycle over the three bridges ” — I would question this claim…
that is saying about 3000 per day over each bridge in one direction…. so in ‘rush hours’ maybe 1/2 would commute – 3 hours of rush hour -500 per hour 8 per minute?
Doesn’t sound quite right….
I would more tend to believe average of 8700 trips per day over bridge — but not ‘to Manhattan’ — it would be ‘to manhattan and to brooklyn’.
And decrease in ridership on subways doesn’t really decrease costs…only revenue….and people that ride the bikes are skinnier and don’t take up much room on subway anyway and usually pretty good eye-candy so making my subway trip less interesting(besides expensive).
“YES, bcause the guy singing and playing the piano was worse than me at Karaoke!!!!”
Ok, that’s difficult to imagine, but for conversation’s sake I’ll go along. And so what did you SAY to this fellow that nearly got you all tossed!
ENY, I hope you will seriously consider coming to the April 22 event. That goes for you, too, Tyburg6 and donatella!
YES, bcause the guy singing and playing the piano was worse than me at Karaoke!!!!
donatella, We’re you surprised by the group?! Hope everyone BEHAVED! [more or less! ; ) ]
yes, so glad you made it , donatella. made the effort.
unlike cobble and tybur and eny.
(were we as weird as you thought?)
Bicycle commuting saw a 26% increase in 2009 compared to the previous year — a 210% increase in the last five years!!
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Data from the DOT Bicycle Program
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Posted by: tybur6 at April 2, 2010 9:35 AM
Rob will freak out when he reads this.
Pete – But at lesat they’re riding them & not carrying them on the trains!
We were very glad you came, donatella.
“over 8700 people commuted DAILY to Manhattan by bicycle over the three bridges ” — I would question this claim…
that is saying about 3000 per day over each bridge in one direction…. so in ‘rush hours’ maybe 1/2 would commute – 3 hours of rush hour -500 per hour 8 per minute?
Doesn’t sound quite right….
I would more tend to believe average of 8700 trips per day over bridge — but not ‘to Manhattan’ — it would be ‘to manhattan and to brooklyn’.
And decrease in ridership on subways doesn’t really decrease costs…only revenue….and people that ride the bikes are skinnier and don’t take up much room on subway anyway and usually pretty good eye-candy so making my subway trip less interesting(besides expensive).