I live in a city/province that is unfortunately dependent on oil and gas industries. Boy, cycling downtown over the past few months...is quiet. Car traffic is less. I've never lived anywhere before, where to the local economy so blatantly affected.

Every week there's news of layoffs, cutbacks from the firms. OUr province now has 50,000 unemployed people.

It would be interesting if some people will use cycling for exercise (to cope with unemployment angst) or to save some money. The statistics this year may tell a partial story later.