fuzzalow
07-31-2017, 06:52 AM
From the NYTimes in coverage of bicycling in the Big Apple.
More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/new-yorkers-bike-lanes-commuting.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well)
Boring is good. Articles written and presented like this one as fairly evenhanded reportage rather than as an article that reads like it is pressing forwards a political agenda.
As often the case, NYC will do things on a scale that makes it impossible to ignore. As written into the lead in for the article:Biking has become part of New York’s commuting culture as the city expands bike
routes and Citi Bikes become ubiquitous. There are more than 450,000 daily bike trips.450,000 daily bike trips! Biking as primarily a grassroots movement aided and abetted by the lowly 30-pound CitiBike, which is a good thing. Because we, as cyclists, would remain outcasts if it were not for the sheer number of bicyclists that have helped to elbow our rights and claim of fair use and access to public roadways. Which forced NYC government to allocate precious square footage of public space for bike lanes - which irrespective of how bike lanes are implemented does mean however that bicycling and bicyclists are a legitimate bloc of citizenry that now have a seat at the table.
In bicycling within society, change comes slowly but it is happening. Keep your eye always on the big picture.
More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/new-yorkers-bike-lanes-commuting.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well)
Boring is good. Articles written and presented like this one as fairly evenhanded reportage rather than as an article that reads like it is pressing forwards a political agenda.
As often the case, NYC will do things on a scale that makes it impossible to ignore. As written into the lead in for the article:Biking has become part of New York’s commuting culture as the city expands bike
routes and Citi Bikes become ubiquitous. There are more than 450,000 daily bike trips.450,000 daily bike trips! Biking as primarily a grassroots movement aided and abetted by the lowly 30-pound CitiBike, which is a good thing. Because we, as cyclists, would remain outcasts if it were not for the sheer number of bicyclists that have helped to elbow our rights and claim of fair use and access to public roadways. Which forced NYC government to allocate precious square footage of public space for bike lanes - which irrespective of how bike lanes are implemented does mean however that bicycling and bicyclists are a legitimate bloc of citizenry that now have a seat at the table.
In bicycling within society, change comes slowly but it is happening. Keep your eye always on the big picture.