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New York City's Bike Community Shows Explosive Growth

Thanks to expanding bike routes and 600 Citi Bike locations, there are more than 450,000 daily bike trips in the city—up from 170,000 in 2005.

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“New York has really become a biking world,” says one two-wheeled commuter in this New York Times feature. With a fleet of 10,000 shared Citi Bikes and 1,133 miles of bike routes (including 425 miles of protected bike lanes), the Big Apple’s bike culture is still expanding—and getting safer every year.

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