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May is US National Bike Month: 61.6% increase in bicycle commuting from 2000 to 2012; "preventative medicine", scientists find
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The number of bicyclists is growing rapidly from coast to coast. The National Household Travel Survey showed that the number of trips made by bicycle in the U.S. more than doubled from 1.7 billion in 2001 to 4 billion in 2009.
For bicyclists of all stripes, there's nothing like Bike to Work Day (BTWD), an annual celebration of active transportation. Thanks, in part, to encouragement efforts like BTWD, the number of bike commuters is on the rise, as well — especially in Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC). From 2000 to 2013, bicycle commuting rates in large BFCs increased 105% — far above the national average of 62% and more than double the rate in non-BFCs (31%).
According to the ACS, in 2012 about .64% of commutes are made by bicycle, which represents an almost 10% increase from 2011. This is the largest year-on-year increase since 2007-2008, showing that people are choosing to use their bicycles for transportation not just in response to economic crisis, but because bicycles are leading the way to recovery. In total, there were 864,883 bike commuters in 2012.
Since 2000, ACS data shows a 61.6% increase in bicycle commuting.
Bike Commuting Is Preventative Medicine, According to Science.
A team of researches from Glasgow University in Scotland found that people who bike to work slash their risk of dying from *any* cause by a whopping 41 percent, relative to those who drive or take public transit.
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Image courtesy @SmartCommuteMRH, Bicycling.com / Green Lane Project and Bike League
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Great to see more and more attention paid to bike commutting. I agree: seeing friends and colleagues doing it is probably the single most infuential part in getting more people to join the wave.
I started bike commuting in October of 2010 from far East Capitol Hill to Foggy Bottom... I did that every single day I went to work with http://acewriters.org/">ace writers for morer than four years. Rain, wind, snow, ice, heat, all of of it! Key for me is having the work locker with shower. I now ride much less often but when I do I am going Huntington Metro area to Foggy Bottom and back (roughly 20 miles roundtrip) I did that for a year+...now I am doing a partial run in in the mornings and then Metro home.
Coming back to Metro after all that time was wierd...and somewhat depressing.
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