[Excerpted from Harvard Chan News]
Blacks and Hispanics living in Roxbury, MA, a low-income Boston neighborhood, prefer riding on safe-from-traffic bicycle routes such as cycle tracks—rather than biking with traffic in roadways—and they want more secure places to park their bicycles to prevent theft, according to a new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study. However, like many such neighborhoods across the country, Roxbury does not have these amenities.
The study was published online May 24, 2017 in Preventive Medicine Reports.
Lead author Anne Lusk, research scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Chan School, and her colleagues conducted surveys in August 2014 of residents who live and bike near Malcolm X Boulevard in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood to learn about their biking preferences and biking habits…[Read full article.]
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- Walking and bicycling your way to health [The Nutrition Source]