06-03-2016, 01:43 PM
Quote:most cyclists (I feel very confident saying “most” here) are young and male
I was about to emit some anecdata to refute and then stopped myself.
Do we have any actual data about who rides and who doesn't? And where? And why?
I'm kinda tempted to start counting the number and apparent gender of cyclists I see (and when and where I see them) as I cycle to and from work. I worry that I see far more people using the spur line trail north of and heading north on the only loop counter I've seen for the trail (just SE of Roger st, or about here), so that it must undercount.
(( anecdotally, I liked the spur line trail better in the Winter when no one else was using it. Curse you, successful transportation mechanism for allowing others to use what had previously been my semi-private domain! ))
I had a thought this morning that the continuing and evolving construction (paired with the excellent weather) has resulted in an explosion of cyclists in the cities. I have no data to support this, but it pleases me to think that some of these recent cyclists were previously drivers and may continue being cyclists when construction dies down.