The New York Times has an interesting article today on the growing number of business travellers who cycle. They takes bikes with them or rent them where they are going.
Included in the article in an interesting statistic:
According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data released last month, there was a 43 percent increase nationally from 2000 to 2008 in people who bike to work regularly, though the numbers are still small: 786,098 last year, compared with 488,497 in 2000.
Incidentally, included in the survey data, is the finding that Philadelphia had the most per capita bicycle commuters of America’s largest cities. Philadelphia has a minuscule 1.6 percent of its commuters traveling by bike, but that percentage is double the number commuting there three years ago and nearly triple the national average of .55 percent.
