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The Case for Bike Racks on NYC Buses

Over the last ten years (or more) just about every major city in the U.S. has added bike-carrying capacity to its buses. While cities like Chicago, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Seattle, Philadelphia, and San Francisco can boast 100 percent of their bus fleets sporting bike racks, New York comes in at zero percent — the only such score in The Alliance for Biking & Walking’s 2010 Benchmarking report.

This probably comes as no surprise to any city cyclist who travels an ample amount, but what is shocking is this fact quietly goes unmentioned.

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Clarence Eckerson Jr. is the Director of Video Production for NYCSR's StreetFilms and producer of bikeTV. He loves the color purple, chocolate chip cookies, and enjoys walking, biking, and taking transit. He has never owned a driver's license.

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