F**k the MTA! Ride Your Bike To Work

Amsterdam / Photo via Tedbike

According to this post by Elisabeth Rosenthal on Yale Environment 360, most Americans living in cities will not ride their bikes to work. Her claim is that merely creating bike lanes in urban America will not result in more people using their bikes for environmentally responsible things like commuting to work or running errands. Although people in Europe have been doing it for years, Rosenthal says that Americans have a car-centric attitude about transportation that does not bode well for biking. I'm pretty sure this is not news.

And what lovely little patch of urban bliss does she cite as an example: Park Slope; specifically the brewhaha over the PPW bike lane. HOT STUFF! Though I agree with most of what Rosenthal says, I do have a beef with her post. She claims that most Park Slope residents are against the bike lane. If she read one of my 300 posts on the PPW controver-say, she'd realize that most of us are all for it.

Regardless, Rosenthal linked to another interesting article in The Atlantic citing the top cities in America for biking commuters and found that they were also some of the happiest cities in America. SPOILER ALERT: New York was not one of them.