Bicycling

Eyes on the Street: MetroCard Bike

''The use of cycles has a place,'' Councilman John Liu recently told the Times. ''But it doesn't come anywhere near the capability of mass transit in making our city greener.''

By Aaron Donovan

4:00 PM EDT on October 12, 2006

”The use of cycles has a place,” Councilman John Liu recently told the Times. ”But it doesn’t come anywhere near the capability of mass transit in making our city greener.”

Whichever mode is greener, this New Yorker has all of his or her bases covered.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.