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[quote=Anonymous]There is zero evidence that protected bike lanes induce cycling.

DDOT has bike counters throughout the district that they have now stopped operating because the results do not should increased utilization over time. What the data shows is that cycling is highly seasonal and many of the lanes have daily users in the tens during January. Second, the utilization that occurs on the first day is constant throughout time. This last point is critically important because what the lanes apparently do is collect existing cyclists that may be using different routes, but do not induce cycling.

As more evidence that more bike lanes don’t induce more cycling, surveys by MWCOG, USDOT and the Census Bureau are all consistent that there are fewer bike commuters now, as a percentage of total commuters, than in 2015.

Apparently, 2015 was peak cycling for most cities in America, including famously Portland, where bike commuting has also declined. NYC is basically a national outlier. [/quote]

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