[sustran] Re: bike vs transit commuting times

[ITDP]

Well, my door-to door commute in Manhattan is about 25 minues BOTH by bike and
by subway.  And that is my pedal power competing against the 7th Avenue express
subway, one of the fastest ways to get around in any city. (It goes express from
96th to 34th Streets with only 2 stops in between).  The bus would take at least
twice as long, since it stops every 4 streets or so. ---Deike

Heckler wrote:

> My fifteen kilometer commute to work takes me 45 minutes on my bike. It
> takes at least an hour by bus in light traffic and one-and-a-half in normal
> rush hour traffic. They've also done this test in New York (that I heard of
> when I lived there) and the bike commuter also won a door-to-door contest
> with the bus. Maybe New York is just like the rest of the world and only the
> rest of North America is differently!