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October 9, 2007

Bike lanes, racks, free helmets win bike-friendly award for NYC

  • With 130,000 bicyclists on the road in the five boroughs daily, that's more total cyclists than any other U.S. city can claim.
    • By KAREN MATTHEWS
    Associated Press Writer

    NEW YORK — New York City, with its convoys of cabs, miles of subway track, fleets of fume-belching trucks and hordes of harried commuters, is a long way from Davis, Calif., with a University of California campus and not much else.

    But the concrete jungle and the college town were both honored recently by the League of American Bicyclists for bike friendliness.


     
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