Avid cyclists keep hoping for a renaissance of two-wheeled commuting in America, and those hopes keep getting deflated. The DCExaminer reached out to several commuters and asked if they were considering switching to bikes.
The latest hope comes amid the summer spike in gas prices. Most days are seeing record highs for national gas prices, and many states have prices well above the national average.
Jim Culver of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, told the Washington Examiner, “Oh, you mean just ride my bike miles each way across hilly terrain in rainy weather to the store and haul back all my groceries on the basket every time I need to go shopping? Great plan.”“I live in Arizona, and it's regularly 110 degrees or higher here,” she said.
“Before the pandemic, bicycle travel made up 1% of total nationwide personal trips and 0.5% of nationwide commuting trips, so it’s a fairly trivial transportation mode in the grand scheme of things and, as a result, isn’t measured as often or as closely as other modes,” he told the Washington Examiner, citing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Census Bureau.
One sign that those two-wheeled priorities are being heeded is that federal funding for bike lanes and trails has increased.
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