Separated lanes article.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031392/t...ted-bike-lanes

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On 7/18/2016 4:46 AM, James wrote:
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031392/t...ted-bike-lanes


Sounds like a very typical propaganda piece. Start with a publicity
campaign about how dangerous bicycling is and how wonderful "protected"
bike lanes are (Dill and Monsere have been at this for years). Spend a
million dollars for about a mile of segregation. Blare the trumpets and
write the headlines as the mayor cuts the ribbon. Then in various
carefully phrased ways, ask people who are using it "So, isn't it nice?"

Here are some comments from a pre-publication review.
http://john-s-allen.com/blog/?p=6294#comments
The review does a decent job of pointing out the weaknesses of the
methodology - that is, if you pretend the authors were actually trying
to learn something, rather than to produce propaganda.

Oh, BTW, regarding the study's cameras and the statement that "...
traffic had become more predictable as a result of the bike lanes?"

https://vimeo.com/23743067


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On 7/18/2016 1:46 AM, James wrote:
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031392/t...ted-bike-lanes

Yes. As everyone except one person in the world is well aware, protected
bike lanes result in increased cycling rates.



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On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 4:30:04 PM UTC-7, SMS wrote:
On 7/18/2016 1:46 AM, James wrote:
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031392/t...ted-bike-lanes

Yes. As everyone except one person in the world is well aware, protected
bike lanes result in increased cycling rates.

According to the article, PDX has 3.5 miles of protected bike lanes -- .99 miles on the west side. http://www.peopleforbikes.org/green-...ty/portland-or

I avoid those .99 miles like the plague. They certainly did not increase my cycling rate -- except my rate of riding on different roads after the city took away the highly functional on-street bike lanes and put in chutes.

The underlying study was done by researchers at Portland State University -- the university where the f****** idiotic students incessantly wander into the massive .33 mile protected bike lane that runs in front of the campus and comprises 1/3 of the even more massive .99 miles of protected bikeways on the west side. http://tinyurl.com/jzwbkgv Great facility except for the people stepping off curbs to get the bus, right turning cars into parking lots, Pokemon hunting students, etc., etc. I much, much, much preferred it when it was an ordinary street with a bike lane.

The other .66 mile west side facility is just as nerve wracking with intersecting pedestrian facilities, two way bike traffic on essentially a wide sidewalk and then though a bunch of confusing hardscape onto a road surface bike lane hemmed in by parallel streetcar tracks.

You can bet that the west-side cyclists turned out in droves when we got the .99 miles of protected bike lanes. Now they do nothing but ride up and down in those facilities -- back and forth, back and forth, all day long.

-- Jay Beattie.