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Bicycle Blueprint       Table 2:
Daily Bicycle Trips in New York City
APPENDIX A. Immediate Steps to Increase Bicycling in New York City
APPENDIX B. Bicycling Levels in New York City
• Table 1: Bicycles Account for 8.6% of Midtown Avenue Traffic, 1988-1992
Table 2: Daily Bicycle Trips in New York City
APPENDIX C. Auto-Free NY 4-Year Plan
• Table 3: Elements of the Auto-Free NY 4-Year Plan

Table 2: Daily Bicycle Trips in New York City

(See Appendix B for derivation of 75,000 daily bicyclists based on 265,000 daily trips.)

CBDN. ManhattanBklynQueensBronxS.I.TOTAL
(1)Daily Vehicle Trip Ends 1,731,500 457,200 1,769,100 1,995,800 710,500 562,900 7,227,000
(2)Persons per Vehicle 3.2 2.2 2.2 2.0 1.8 1.6 2.3
(3)Daily Person Trip Ends 5,540,800 1,005,800 3,892,000 3,991,600 1,278,900 900,600 16,609,700
(4)Bike Share of Trip Ends, vs. CBD 100% 20% 20% 15% 20% 10% 37%
(5)Daily Bikes Entering County 7,550 400 1,540 1,310 620 250 11,700
(6)Ratio, Bikes In to Bikes Entering 20 20 25 25 25 30 21.6
(7)Daily Bicycle Trip Ends 158,600 8,400 40,000 34,100 16,100 7,800 265,000

Notes and Sources:
(1) & (2) are from NY Metropolitan Transportation Council; vehicles include transit. (4) & (6) are T.A. assumptions.
(5) Manhattan CBD = 1/2 of daily bikes crossing CBD screen-line. NYC DoT, "NYC Bicycle Statistics, 1990," Table 1, shows 10,930 bikes crossing CBD screen-line daily. We added 15% to this figure to corrected DoT's undercount documented in M.F. Dunham, "Assessing the Percentage of Bicyclists in the Traffic of Manhattan's Central Business District," Feb. 1991, plus 20% to reflect cycling between 7 pm and 7 am. Thus, the corrected estimate of bikes crossing CBD screen-line daily in 1990 (rounded) is 15,100. Other counties are calculated from figure for Manhattan CBD and figures in row (4).

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