This is good news for bicycling safety according to advocates who believe in “safety in numbers.”
Biking Has Shot Up an Insane 356 Percent in Santa Monica
Curbed
Dec 2, 2104
Whoa, it’s a good thing Santa Monica didn’t dilly-dally on launching that bike share program—they saw a formidable 356 percent increase in bike riding between 2000 and 2012, according to a progress report on the city’s Bike Action Plan, which went into action about three years ago. […] True, it covers several more years than the bike plan’s been in action, but still—nationally over the same period, even the average bike-friendly city only saw an 85 percent rise in cycling. Santa Monica crushed them all. […]