Map of the Day: Cyclists By Zip Code

Streetsblog took a look at the Department of City Planning's annual bicycle survey and dug up this map of cyclists by zip code as well as these highlights:

- For Bicycle Commuters: 44% start in Manhattan and 41% start in Brooklyn; 81% end in Manhattan and 10% end in Brooklyn.
- At the work place: 52% park and lock their bikes outdoors, 48% indoors.
- The average commute time for cyclists is 35 minutes.
- The most common reason that non-commuting cyclists do not commute by bike is because of driver behavior/traffic and lack of safe storage at work.
- The most common reason commuter cyclists do commute by bike is because it is healthy/good exercise and because it is environmentally friendly.

And the zipcode with the most bicyclists? It's the 11215 - Park Slope, where there's a battle over making 9th Street more bike-friendly.

Read the report here.

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on May 10, 2007 4:51 PM

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Guest

Hey Jacko -- thats gotta be the most idiotic comment I've seen in a while. You wouldn't happen to be a schmuck, would you?

CR

Rache - Non-English speakers aren't online? News to me, and news to them too.

rache

Skewed because it was only available online and so didn't count non-English speakers or people w/o computers. Hence the neighborhood breakdown. Do you really think the delivery guy at your local deli is commuting from Park Slope?

jacko

hey peter, go scour the nearest takeout places by mexicans. mexicans stole my bike and I found it ten blocks from my home. Mexicans are the new black people when it comes to stealing bikes.

Kojak

Wheres the map of Segway Commuters?

This post is biased.

Peter

you can take one biker off the map...because some scumbag stole my bike last night in Astoria...black beach cruiser with a broken pedal...and you can remove one biker off the list because I am going to kill whoever it was...then you can add me back on...