Jonah Hanig retweetledi
NYC rearranged tons of street space to make room for people to get around using bikes. What happened next?
🥳 Every mile of protected bike lane added generates about 1,100 daily bike trips. Bike commuting tripled from 2007 to 2024.
🥳 15% to 20% of new bike trips replaced vehicle trips, creating a per-mile reduction of about 140,000 to 190,000 vehicle miles traveled every year.
🥳 Bike share continues to appeal to residents. 13% of all New Yorkers used a @CitiBikeNYC in 2022. In 2014, the first full year of service, 8.6 million rides. In 2024, 44.5 million rides.
🥳 Bike infrastructure creates 47% more jobs per $1 million spent than car projects, boosts local sales by 49%, and generates 3.6 times more expenditure per space converted from cars.
🥳 Protected lanes increase cycling probability by over 9%.
🥳 Every $1,300 invested yields health benefits equivalent to one additional year of life for residents.
🥳 Shifting trips to bikes cuts vehicle miles traveled reduced congestion, lowered carbon emissions, and improved air quality. @CitiBikeNYC alone reduced emissions by 1,800,000 pounds monthly.
Armin Rosen@ArminRosen
Bike boulevards, protected bike lanes, eliminating traffic lanes on very busy streets to build bike lanes, closing major streets to traffic, eliminating street parking, introducing a congestion charge. We did all that shit, and the results were...New Yorkers kept buying cars at the same rates, traffic got worse, bike infrastructure got hijacked by delivery ebikes, and now it's shitty and expensive and time-consuming to get anywhere
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