Cost savings
From The Boston Globe:
Wheeling off numbers
January 9, 2005$345 — The amount saved yearly by cycling to work, assuming a five-day work week, a 16-mile roundtrip commute, gas at $1.80 per gallon, and a car that gets 25 miles to the gallon.
58 hours — The time the average Boston commuter is stuck in gridlock each year.
15 percent — The portion of an average Boston household’s budget spent on transportation.
121 — The peak hour count of cyclists riding over the Longfellow Bridge, or under it along the Esplanade path, on Nov. 30, 2004. That was nearly 50 percent higher than a count done on Nov. 28, 1984. (New England’s Best Workplaces for CommutersSM Coalition, the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization)
It’s too bad that the Longfellow Bridge is one of the absolute worst, most dangerous bridges and intersections to try to get across on a bike, doubly so with the Charles T stop construction. I note the count was taken at the end of November, too, hardly peak cycling season.
