The city’s bicycling infrastructure has plenty of room for improvement, according to thousands of cyclists who responded to the first-ever New York Cycling Census.
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Even so, the Big Apple’s bike infrastructure earned higher marks than the rest of the state in all categories except for dedicated bike trails. Those fears are only reinforced by the ever-increasing body count of cyclists on city streets this year. Nine cyclists died while traversing the five boroughs in the first three months of 2023, the largest number since the city adopted Vision Zero as a policy goal in 2014,. Overall, 70 people have died in traffic collisions in New York as of April 30 this year, a 6% increase over the same time last year, according to NYPD data.
“Even when the bike lanes are beautiful and well-designed, exactly what you want, there’s cars and trucks in them all the time,” Orcutt noted.
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