Bicycle Intervention
Bicycle Messengers in New York City: Interventions for Greater Safety and Success
With over eight-million inhabitants, nearly one million separate businesses, and a geographic spread of over three-hundred square miles, New York City is the largest and one of the densest urban areas in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). The streets are heavily trafficked, the business needs are intense and hurried, and the growth of the city in terms of both its population and its economy will continue to make the city more densely packed and more quickly paced over the coming decade (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). Spatially, physically, and economically, New York City is both constrained and explosive, tightly bound into its geographic borders, street patterns, etc. But also still growing at a rapid pace, and as such it provides a highly interesting and complex context within which to situate this research. It is also a city that is defined by change and ongoing development in its structure and its practices, within the physical constraints of the city as constructed, and thus New York City is an also a highly dynamic context, which will add to the meaningfulness of the intervention and research.
The density and the growth of the city also makes it an ideal location for the study particular issues and interventions that will defined below, namely easing the work and increasing the safety of bicycle messengers and providing better economic incorporation and support of bike messengers. Severe traffic problems at certain times and in certain locations can make it very difficult for automobile traffic, including couriers, to make time-sensitive deliveries with any level of assurance, and at times traffic simply prohibits speedy transport by car, period (Gothamist, 2009). Bicycle couriers and messengers provide a solution to problems of traffic density and reduced speed for automobile deliveries, with the ability to avoid or weave between lanes of slow-moving and standstill traffic increasing their speed, while also of course increasing the personal risk the bicycle messengers experience (Kidder, 2011; Stewart;...
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