On 12/6/2019 10:55 AM, AMuzi wrote:
https://cyclingindustry.news/sustran...ign-standards/

Oh, and from that site:

"Where built properly, cycling infrastructure has been shown to create
substantial behavioural change in transport use. In a recent Danish
study it was demonstrated that the creation of safe lanes came with a
23% increase in cyclist numbers versus data stretching back to 2010."

I think that "has been shown" should be modified by "occasionally."
There are plenty of counterexamples.

In another discussion, someone just pointed out Santa Clarita,
California. It apparently has a really wonderful network of separated
bike trails, miles of them with many of them linking cul-de-sacs so cars
are excluded and there are few crossing conflicts. The network goes all
over town, and even features grade separated crossings of major roads.
It's like another Stevenage or Milton Keynes, but in America.

See
https://goo.gl/maps/VoxWsxrdX5fxWjc18

The city's gotten LAB's "silver" level award as a Bike Friendly
Community. So what are the results of the "substantial behavioral change
in transport use"? Bike mode share estimates range from 0.3% to 0.5%

Whoopee!

The default transportation mode is still the car (or more likely, pickup
or SUV). If motor vehicle use is not actively discouraged, that's always
going to be the case. And I can't envision much discouragement of motor
vehicle use in the U.S. in the foreseeable future.


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- Frank Krygowski