An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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CYCLING IN METRO VAN: THE LATEST STATS
From the Buzzer Blog:
Cycling is at its highest levels yet in Metro Vancouver, making up 1.8 per cent of trips in the region. That’s 106,500 trips per day, with 55% to and from work!
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THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
From Dianna Waggoner:
A couple of weeks ago while riding my bicycle around San Francisco I remembered how horrible it is to commute in that most beautiful city. It’s not the traffic but the condition of the streets–
potholes big enough to swallow a bus, broken pavement everywhere, long narrow ruts which eat bicycle wheels–which make for very scary, and unsafe, riding.
potholes big enough to swallow a bus, broken pavement everywhere, long narrow ruts which eat bicycle wheels–which make for very scary, and unsafe, riding.Over supper a friend said that he’d taken a visitor on a two wheeled tour of the downtown area a few years ago and as they parked their bikes afterwards the visitor said he hadn’t seen such terrible streets since leaving home. “And you don’t even have bombs,” he added.
The visitor was from Beirut.
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THE STREETS (AND BRIDGES) OF NEW YORK
In post-storm New York, the bike is having a moment of sorts. 
With subways still not running under the East River or between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, traffic snarled in many places and lines for buses stretching for blocks, many people in Brooklyn took to bicycles on Thursday to get where they had to go.
Article here.
Let’s hope that the stark difference between Vancouver and Richmond cycling mode share will put to rest the anti-cycling crowd’s argument about Vancouver being “too hilly” to justify bike infrastructure.
On 6th Avenue In Chelsea people were handing out coffee and bagels to northbound cyclists, coming from Lower Manhattan where there were no services de to lack of power. They apologized to us pedestrians for not being able to share some with us, since we weren’t on bikes. Imagine that, an apology for something we neither expected nor deserved. Civility is alive and well in te Big Apple.