Tourists bicycling...transfer the experience to home.

Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times. Kinderhook, N.Y., has links to Dutch Colonial America, the Revolution and the eighth president. (Click on the article for a larger photo.)

From "Martin Van Buren Slept Here," in the New York Times.

Transportation Alternatives, the best practice local transportation advocacy group in NYC, has a report, "The Electronic Bicycle Blueprint A specific action plan to bring bicycles into the mainstream in New York City," but one thing it lacks is a plan for making bicycling a mobility option for tourists.

I keep meaning to talk to the bike people here about this. And I have brought it up at a couple of public and private meetings with DDOT officials about implementing the Adshel bus shelter and bikesharing contract in DC.

I think DC isn't focusing too much on this aspect of bikesharing.
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And riders of quality subways and buses while visiting other places can then advocate for quality transit when they return home...