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US bicycle commuters based on data, the US Census estimates that there are between 411,000 and 750,000 people who ride bicycles more miles than any other vehicle to get to work during an average week.

Bike to work Bicycling takes about the same amount of time as driving a car to work if you live within 10 miles of work or less.

Bicycling can be one of most pleasant ways to commute to work. Rather than creating stress while driving to work, the exercise actually relieves stress. Many commute trips are short and bicycling is an ideal commute mode for short trips. While relatively few people envision themselves bicycling to work, the people who do it are enthusiastic about their commute mode.

Select a route. Plan your route carefully, bike to work

don't assume that the shortest, most direct route is the best - quality beats brevity. Look for quieter streets that aren't packed with buses and trucks. If you must ride on busy streets, use those with bike lanes if you can find any, or at least wide lanes. Multiple-lane, one-way streets are often good. Stay off sidewalks - in some areas illegal and always dangerous, un-maintained, bumpy.

Do a test run. In your car, drive the bike route and look for things like wide lanes, bike lanes and traffic flow. The first time you bike to work, allow yourself a little more time than you think you will need. If you tested the route on the weekend as suggested you will know the approximate time it takes. Remember - rush hour traffic may slow you down.

Claim Your Share of the Road. It's important to create a space cushion between your bike and other vehicles, both moving and parked. This way, drivers can also easily see you and have enough room to pass safely. If there is more than one lane in your direction, just ride down the middle of a lane, drivers can change lanes to pass you .
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Equip Yourself You've heard it before, but considering how many cyclists continue to tempt fate, wear your helmet. In an accident, it might keep your skull from cracking like an egg. For night riding, bicycle regulations vary state-by-state, but it is common for local regulations to require both a headlight and a tail light. A flashing red light on the back of your bike can get a driver's attention. A good halogen headlight will not only help you avoid painful potholes but also make you extra visible to oncoming cars and cars at intersections.

The morning air is clear and crisp as you set out for work on your e-bicycle. Waiting in line at a traffic light, most of the cars only have one occupant.
You are feeling awake and motivated as you pull into your workplace and lock your bike to the rack near the entrance of the building, while car drivers troll around the parking lot, searching for that elusive parking space. A few minutes later, you are at work, relaxed and wide awake, ready for the day ahead. E-bike commute is a time in which I am free from the stress of work. On the way home stopping at the store just lock up my bike in front of the door and walk right in. I couldn't have been so flexible with a car.

Everyone drives so quickly and frantically, desperately searching for parking because his real goal is to get out of his car. Not only is driving a car boring and frustrating it is isolating. People enclosed in cars cannot communicate. The rare communication that takes place is usually angry: "Get off my tail, you idiot!" Driving stinks and we do it a lot. Many subject themselves to hours of this unpleasant experience each day.

Hurry up get where are you going to that you have to rush around in your car is angering. I see you all the time, going from lane to lane, looking for a space you can wedge your Beemer into, blasting your horn at other drivers waiting for pedestrians, waving your finger at me because I passed you six times in as many blocks on my e-bicycle. Hurry up yet you never seem to get anywhere very fast. Certainly no faster than anyone else in a car.

Ride the bike around a little; remember what it's like to live in your body again, as you did for a short while when you were young. In the city, where you can bicycle half an hour to work and there are three good restaurants four blocks away. Then look at your car and think about that long drive home and how you'll feel when the perfected tedium of the freeway sneers back at you tonight. What's the hurry...... every commute you make is the same as the last one.

Authors note: You will notice a break in period to your riding habits with new electric biking. You might find yourself going as fast as you possibly can like driving a car at first for no particular reason. You don't have to race cars ! you are going as fast as they are. On high traffic street in Houston I can make all green lights at 18-20 MPH catching up to all cars going 45 MPH between lights on a 35 MPH street while cars are waiting at the all the stop lights. I can go faster on the ebike and then wait at lights like the cars - no point to hurry up - going fast just to stop.