Study: People Who Bike to Work Live Longer Than People Who Drive
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A robust study of British workers found that people who commute by bike are less likely to die from heart disease, cancer, and other causes.
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Trip Data Deflates the Dockless Bike-Share Hype
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Dockless bike-share services carried just 4 percent of all American bike-share trips in 2017, according to estimates from NACTO, despite accounting for 44 percent of the nation's total bike-share fleet.
Hit-and-Run Deaths Are Skyrocketing, and Pedestrians and Cyclists Bear the Brunt
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Hit-and-run drivers killed more than 2,000 people in the U.S. in 2016, an increase of 60 percent since 2009.
An Hourly Fee on Cabs and Ubers Is Less Radical Than It Appears
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Transportation analyst Bruce Schaller recommends charging for-hire vehicles between $5 and $50 per hour within the Manhattan taxi zone.
How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”
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By almost any quantifiable safety metric, the helmet fixation has failed. People bike at low rates in the U.S. compared to international peers, and suffer higher injury and fatality rates per mile of cycling.
Schaller: Curbing Uber "Idle Time" Key to Busting Gridlock
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A report published today by taxi savant Bruce Schaller pins Manhattan's current traffic meltdown squarely on the relentless growth in Uber, Lyft, and other app-based for-hire vehicles.