Sentences with phrase «bicycle trips per»

Americans make more than four billion bicycle trips per year.

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Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

Making 50 % of these trips by bicycle just during four summer months would save 1,295 lives and yield savings of more than $ 8 billion per year from improved air quality, avoided mortality, and reduced health care costs for the upper Midwest alone.

According to the 2012 National Travel Survey, approximately 2 per cent of all trips in the UK are made by bicycle.