{"id":5634,"date":"2012-11-02T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/11\/02\/new-york-times-the-bicycle-is-saving-the-city\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:07:22","slug":"new-york-times-the-bicycle-is-saving-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/11\/02\/new-york-times-the-bicycle-is-saving-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times – The Bicycle is Saving the City!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NY Times<\/span><\/p>\n

November 1, 2012<\/p>\n

One Way Around the Traffic Muddle in Brooklyn: Riding a Bicycle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

By KATE TAYLOR<\/p>\n

In post-storm New York, the bike is having a moment of sorts.<\/p>\n

With subways still not running under the East River or between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, traffic snarled in many places and lines for buses stretching for blocks, many people in Brooklyn took to bicycles on Thursday to get where they had to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely glad I have a bike right now \u2014 it\u2019s one of the best assets you can have,\u201d said James Emery, 22, who was riding on Thursday afternoon from Williamsburg to Red Hook to help a friend whose screen-printing business had been flooded.<\/p>\n

Thomas Jarrels, 46, who biked home to Crown Heights from his job as a sous-chef at a Midtown law firm, said he was glad to have had an impetus to bike to work. He said he was a bike messenger in the 1980s and loved biking, but had never commuted by bike until the storm disabled the subway. Though it took slightly longer than the train, he said, he thought he would keep biking even after the subway started running again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt saves money, and it\u2019s less of a headache,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gives you time to think, meditate and get your exercise on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Susan Creighton, 26, a teacher who lives in Park Slope and is running in the New York City Marathon on Sunday, said she had decided to bike into Manhattan to pick up her number at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center after seeing the long lines for buses on the news.<\/p>\n

She said she usually biked only recreationally and had been intimidated by riding on more congested routes. \u201cThis kind of showed me it\u2019s not that bad,\u201d she said, adding that on Friday she might bike to the school in Williamsburg where she teaches.<\/p>\n

Many frequent bike commuters said that, with sparse traffic in downtown Manhattan, conditions for biking were ideal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just bombed all the way down Broadway right now \u2014 I think I saw five cars,\u201d said Jason Jaramillo, 34, who had just biked to Brooklyn from the Upper West Side. \u201cI wish it was always like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

But David Pimentelli, 42, said that biking in some areas of Brooklyn had been frightening on Thursday, with drivers waiting anxiously in long lines for gas and little police presence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m scared to be going back to Brooklyn right now,\u201d he said, as he exited the Brooklyn Bridge after a trip to Manhattan. \u201cPeople are running red lights, very agitated, they don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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