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November 12, 2008

Benefits of Active Transportation

Via Streetsblog:

The folks at the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy have figured out that if we could double the bike/pedestrian mode share for trips of one mile or less (from the current 31% to 70%) we would not only save 50 BILLION miles driven each year, we'd have a much healthier population. Full report (PDF, 5M).

Posted by Chris Smith at 10:36 PM

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November 15, 2008 10:09 AM
al m Says:

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