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Old 12-18-07 | 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by jme243
I am interested in the percentage of people who commute via bicycle each day in the US. Does anyone have a number that may help me?
Go here and look for the benchmarking study.
It answers this question as well as any other bicycling related question you can possibly think of. Chapter 3 is especially interesting. Since it has all the data related to bicycling.
Funniest thing I found there:
While Portland leads the nation in the percentage of trips to work by bike, they are also cheap skates beyond belief . In Portland 3.6% of people commutes to wrok by bike; 0.6% does that in Atlanta.
The bicycling retail sales per capita in Portland is $70; that number in Atlanta is $216......

People in Atlanta that do ride their bike, spend 16 times as much doing so than people in Portland....

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