Cycling Embassy of Denmark

Re-inventing urban streets and economies through bicycle commuting, with New York transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan; Transportation Alternatives' Caroline Sampanaro; and Fashion designer/cyclist Lela Rose.
 

On a summer afternoon walking up Lafayette Street toward Houston, just past Spring, you’re likely to approach a cluster of characters on the sidewalk. It’s hard to tell what everyone is doing there, but they all have bikes. They’re looking at bikes, testing bikes, locking up bikes, putting air in bike tires, sitting in storefronts nearby talking about bikes while drinking iced coffee from La Colombe cafe down the street.
 

Biking is booming in New York City, with the number of daily cyclists rising to an average of 236,000 in 2009, up 26 percent from 2008, according to statistics compiled by Transportation Alternatives, a pro-biking nonprofit group.