Get with It, U.S. - Buy a Bike!
Roney JM. Bicycles Pedaling Into the Spotlight. Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 2008.
J. Matthew Roney has written a timely article for Lester Brown’s Earth Policy Institute, detailing bicycle production worldwide. It is good news, but the U.S. is lagging far behind in the race.
“While biking remains popular for recreation in the United States, it is woefully underused for transportation. Total cycling participation has declined nationally since 1960, dropping 32 percent since the early 1990s, and now accounts for just 0.9 percent of all trips. Cycling to work is even less frequent, at 0.4 percent of trips.”
An idea for 2009: hold off on nonessential auto purchases, and buy a bike instead.
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