Eyes on the Street: MetroCard Bike

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”The use of cycles has a place,” Councilman John Liu recently told the Times. ”But it doesn’t come anywhere near the capability of mass transit in making our city greener.”

Whichever mode is greener, this New Yorker has all of his or her bases covered.

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