Statistics

Submitted by kate on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 16:34.
If 5% of New Yorkers commuting by private car or taxi switched to biking to work, they could save 150 million pounds of CO2 emissions per year, equivalent to the amount reduced by planting a forest 1.3 times the size of Manhattan.
Transportation Alternatives, 2008
Rolling Carbon: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Commuting in New York City