"Want More Bike Commuters? Build Protected Bike Lanes, Says New Study"
Ron Johnson, writing at Momentum Mag:
Block groups that added protected bike lanes saw commuter ridership increases 1.8 times higher than those that added standard bike lanes (SBLs, yes, paint), and 4.3 times higher than those that added no infrastructure at all. Buffered bike lanes (BBLs) performed slightly better than SBLs, but the clear champion in the data was the protected lane.
This is not surprising to me. Anyone who thinks that sharrows—the images of bicycles painted in traffic lanes to indicate where a shared car and bike route is intended—are effective simply hasn't ridden a bike in traffic much (or at all). When I'm riding in San Francisco, I'll go blocks out of my way to ride on protected routes.
Want More Bike Commuters? Build Protected Bike Lanes, Says New Study
Block groups that added protected bike lanes saw commuter ridership increases 1.8 times higher than those that added standard bike lanes.