Bikies, Actually, *IS there a source* for all-the-numbers for the U.S. on total bicycle fleet size, bikes per capita, total bike commuters, percentage of commuters by mode, more....? I´d like to see that ["official" numbers] to try to figure out if I can find numbers to compare them to here in Brazil where they say the total bike fleet is 65 million and growing rapidly.
Blog post by somebody called JR: http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/2009/09/43-increase-in-bicycle-commuting-since-2000/ "The number of bike commuters was estimated to be 786,098 +/- 16,011. If you also consider that the total number of commuters (the denominator) has a spread of +/- 139,905 the percentages could range from 0.534% in the worst case and 0.558% in the best case. So, even in the worst case scenario it seems that there has been a significant growth in bicycle commuting (hooray!)." When I dig through the Census ACS data (http://www.census.gov/acs) I find tables that include the following examples but nothing specifically about bicycles - perhaps only by getting at the live data: *Means of Transportation to Work * -Car, truck, or van - drove alone: -Car, truck, or van - carpooled -Public transportation (excluding taxicab) -Taxicab, motorcycle, bicycle, walked, or other means -Worked at home If there is a bike-centric collection of data from the US Census online I´d appreciate any pointers to that. Thx Matthew Berigan Campina Grande - Paraiba On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, India Rose Viola <[email protected]> wrote: > This is pulled from the League of American Bicyclists current newsletter, > "According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey (ACS), > released today, 0.55 percent of American workers use a bicycle as their > primary means of getting to work." > > And apparently this is up 43% from 2000. > > -india > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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