Cycling In New York City
New York City offers a mix of favorable cycling conditions — dense urban proximities, short distances and relatively flat terrain — along with significant cycling challenges: congested roadways with stop and go traffic, a sometimes unsympathetic regulatory environment, and streets with heavy pedestrian activity. The city has a large cycling population including utility cyclists such as delivery and messenger services, cycling clubs for recreational cyclists and, increasingly, commuters.
While New York had developed the country's first bike path in 1894, and recent trends place the city "at the forefront of a national trend to make bicycling viable and safe" — competing ideas of urban transportation have led to conflict as well as ongoing efforts to balance the needs of cyclists, pedestrians and cars.
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