Results of the Bike2Work survey are now posted on the city’s website. See them for yourself here. Just over half of the respondents said that they had not ridden a bike to work in the past year. Still, almost half of you who took the survey did ride to work in the past year. That is great.
What stood out to me when I saw these results though, was the fact that over 20 percent of respondents had only ridden to work once or twice. Those people obviously have an interest in bike commuting, but, for whatever reason, don’t feel comfortable doing it on a regular basis. As I expected, the biggest obstacle chosen was “not feeling safe riding with traffic.” These results just confirm that there is work to be done on the local advocacy front. Improving the infrastructure for cycling is part of it, but educating drivers and cyclists about sharing the roads is at least equally important. Stay tuned here for more on that subject in future posts.
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