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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