Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has said that he wants to make his city
more bike-friendly, and to help with that he has pledge that 100 miles
of protected bike lanes would be built during his first term. The first
of those is now open to the public, and as far as I can tell, it has
been a great success so far! StreetFilms has shot the video below about it. It's great and should be shown to
the mayor and urban planners of all cities around North-America.
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Protected bike lanes sell bikes - in that sense they're 'bike friendly'. Unfortunately they have been shown to kill cyclists twice as fast as a standard road, because they make cyclists appear seemingly out of nowhere at intersections.
ReplyDeleteI wish government would get out of the 'bike friendly' business and into the business of being 'cyclist friendly'. With friends like whoever designed and approved this 'protected bike lane' concept, who needs enemies?
@Beery:
ReplyDeleteProtected bike lanes are widely used throughout the Netherlands, which has the highest modal share for bikes of any developed country, and has the lowest levels of traffic accidents.
So, are the Dutch different to Americans?
What is it that gives the Dutch the lowest levels of traffic accidents, if it is not the physical design of their cycling infrastructure?
Try some evidence-based arguing, rather than anti-bike lane trolling.