That’s on Market Street crossing Van Ness at the height of the morning rush hour, according to the SF MTA counts. Amazing! It’s like a joke… 15 years ago, if you had told the (barely existent) SF bicycle community that in 2008 they’d be enjoying not only overwhelming political and citizen support, but that they would be starting to physically outnumber the vehicle culture – you’d get nothing but laughter and disbelief. Laddies and Gents, times are changing, times are changing fast. This, like most other cultural changes, has started in the cities and will propagate outward over the next 10-20 years. I can’t deny I’m looking forward to a world with a little more road rash, a little more sweat – and a lot less obesity, segregation, danger, and smog.
I can’t do the math, and I don’t think anyone really has the resources, but my gut claims that more people in the Bay Area (California? the USA?) biked today than in any day in living memory. Big words for a big day.
Cheers to a record-breaking Bike-To-Work Day! Cheers to the day when every morning, Market Street has more bikes than cars.