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Speaker 1: More people are biking in Cambridge than ever recorded. That's

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Speaker 1: according to a report published by the city's Transportation department

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Speaker 1: showing how the number of people biking has more than

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Speaker 1: tripled over the last twenty years. Not only that, but

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Speaker 1: it says biking has become safer, with a forty one

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Speaker 1: percent decrease in the city wide bike crash rate. Cameron

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Speaker 1: recently moved to Cambridge from a not so bike friendly Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's great. One of the biggest

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Speaker 2: reasons that I moved to the city was actually that

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Speaker 2: it is so walkable and reversible for just the average person,

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Speaker 2: and that you don't have to rely on a vehicle.

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Speaker 2: I actually sold my vehicle coming up here.

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Speaker 1: So the report also shows children's biking has grown even faster,

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Speaker 1: with a two hundred and eighty three percent increase over

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Speaker 1: the past ten years in Cambridge. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio