Word: biked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who introduced the speakers, said in an interview after the conference that the city's new Bicycle Committee is planning new projects dealing with bike safety and road development. The committee met for the first time on April...
Kennedy said that although statistics show that more than half of U.S. citizens live within five miles of work, only six percent bike or walk. The problem, he said, is that people are not convinced that the roads are safe for bicycles...
...just a question on bike routes, but a question of education." he said. "We have to teach people to ride bikes safely and drivers to drive safely with bikers...
...addition to styrofoam helmets and racing gloves, the bikers who accompanied kennedy wore tee-shirts saying in bold black letters, "BACK THE BIKE BILL HR-2101." The slogan refers to a recent bill, drafted by Kennedy, which would earmark three percent of the Federal Highway Trust Fund for building bike routes across the nation...
Kennedy fired off volley after volley of statistics, pointing out that 140 million bikes already sit in garages across the nation, that every year a car produces its own weight in pollutants, that traffic problems cost the country more than $41 million annually and that 25 to 40 percent of the Japanese employed population bike to work...