More Reasons to Love Your Bike(s)

Thomas Gotschi, Director of Research at Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, writes in the New American Dream Blog:

"The bottom line is, bicycling and walking produce more than $4 billion in benefits every year, and modest increases in active transportation would yield $10 billion in benefits annually. Under substantial increases, this figure would increase to more than $60 billion in benefits every year."