| Re: Davis,CA bicycle ridership down 5% over ten years
"Ken Marcet" <kcmarcet@hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:38llchF5lfdqpU1@individual.net...
> Interesting figure, I wonder if this is a national trend or the
people of
> Davis are just getting lazy?
> http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/?id=7881
>
prof' emeritus John Finley Scott, ex bike shop owner, ex teacher at
Davis of courses in the sociology of transportation, reckons it's
because the town is getting bigger - too far to ride.
Remember most people will only ride about two miles. If we assume
that people will ride about four times as far as they will walk,
that's consistent, so it's not some special factor about the bike.
Jeremy Parker
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