Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy [Paperback]

Elly Blue'sBikenomicsprovides a surprising and compelling new perspective on the way we get around, where we live, and how we spend our money. The book provides an unflinching look at the real costs of transportation and roads, for households and society at large, and shares the success stories of people, businesses, organizations, and cities that are investing in two-wheeled transportation. The multifaceted North American bicycle movement is revealed, with its contradictions, challenges, successes, and visions.Bikenomicsdoes for transportation whatThe Omnivore's Dilemmadid for food. Whether or not you ride a bicycle, reading this book will forever change the way you see the world around you.

An instant classic when it was first published in 2013,Bikenomicshas been revised and updated for its second edition, including a new introduction by the author.

Bikenomicswill make you wonder how cities ever decided to plan for cars in the first place. Elly Blue makes a compelling case for reconnecting with your community in a very authentic way. And she does it with a witty, persuasive voice that makes this refreshingly jargon-free book a pleasure to read. —Alissa Walker, Urbanism Editor,Gizmodo

Blue's book is rational, fully footnoted—and, in the main, persuasive. —Fast Company

Blue's book helped me better frame my own reasons for riding, and got me thinking a lot about what a more bike-centered future could look like. It's a future, I realized, I'd really like to see. —The Portland Mercury

“Elly Blue has written theCommon Sensefor the bicycling revolution. Like Tom Paine, Blue set out to show how truths we were raised to believe—streets are for cars, bicycling is an intrusion, cars predominate because they make economic good sense—are really assumptions that defy common sense.Bikenomicsis fact-based but personal³J