Faster than a speeding ambulance in heavy traffic and wooded parks, NY medics on bikes win goodwill.
Bikes get emergency teams through traffic jams, parks. In some circumstances, a bicycle beats an ambulance. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, NY, sends medics out to prowl a vast, wooded park and a congested business district, and more than half the time, its emergency bike unit beats ambulances, fire trucks and police cars to the scene.
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