The most recent poll:
Of those that voted, the average spending on a bicycle for 2008 looks to be just under $900*, which for an annual transportation cost is DIRT CHEAP compared to owning a car. AAA estimated in 2006 that the annual cost of owning a car was nearly $8,000, but they also admit that there are many other costs not factored into that amount.
Read the Wall Street Journal article about all of this.
Getting a Long Beach Transit monthly pass would run you $600 a year, and isn’t good to get you down to OC or into LA, and does almost nothing to shape that butt.
Bikes-at-Work has a calculator so you can figure out how much you really spend on a car each year, and what you could do with that money if you weren’t spending it on a car.
With great products like Xtracycle, B.O.B. Trailers, and Bilenky, a bicycle is a truly viable transportation choice in our city.
*calculated by taking an average of the median dollar amounts in each category – actual average of 14 votes was $892.64
