Rits: There's been a huge increase in bicycle usage in new york. Over a half million bike trips per day, i believe. If we wanta copenhagen like environment, you have very little parking in the city altogether. To get fast, you start just doing things piecemeal and hopefully systematically. A city that's less hospitable to cars and more hospitable to bicycles is safer for people of colour or low income.
Jody Rosen is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and a bike nut who has just published a rousing (and sometimes arousing) book called “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” Today, he takes us on a rollicking ride through the two-wheeled revolution, revealing the surprising ways bicycles have shaped the world in which we live.
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