STUDY: Better Bike Policy Could Prevent 15K U.S. Deaths Every Year
If U.S. cities take aggressive but realistic action to replace car trips with bike trips by 2050, they could prevent more than 15,000 premature deaths every year, a new study finds.
By
Kea Wilson
7:48 PM CST on December 3, 2021
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