I found it a disapointing article because it downplays the positive effects of riding to work and over plays the dangers.
It even contradicts itself when it first says
PAUL FORD, a soft-spoken, sturdily built 32-year-old who works as an editor at Harper’s Magazine, sometimes describes his commute between his apartment in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and his office on Broadway near Bond Street as feeling “like a video game, except you can get killed.” “Everyone is your enemy,” he said. “You don’t want to get killed, and you don’t want to kill anyone.”
and then says,
“Two months ago I was terrified to make this turn,” he said as he merged with traffic and headed west on Houston toward Broadway. “But now it’s no big deal. You get used to it.”
It also says,
New York is arguably the most challenging city in the country in which to ride a bike.
and then says,
this year, Bicycling magazine ranked New York the country’s third-best city for cycling among cities with population of more than one million, just behind San Diego and Chicago.
and then there is the quote on numbers of killed and injured in the streets, like there aren't far more pedestrians and motorists. 109 over 6 years? Isn't that about 18 a year? for 120,000 regular and 40,000 commuter cyclists? How many dead were not one of those rare 2 types?
This is a scare article. Heck, even the LA Times ran a story this year about the health benefits of cycle commuting, and other papers ran the point about the more cyclists on the road, there are less of car/bicycle collisions.