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davidzipper.bsky.social • 10 days ago

Today in unsurprising but important news:

Building bike lanes increases bikeshare usage

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104147

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dancvg.bsky.social•10 days ago

Wild seeing one of my school’s profs mentioned here

neilforreal.bsky.social•10 days ago

dansturges.bsky.social•10 days ago

Build it and they will come

inklake.com•10 days ago

Which is precisely why the people thst oppose them, oppose them.

luisvaldes.bsky.social•10 days ago

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angelone.bsky.social•10 days ago

Hopefully this research can be used to update the assumptions for the CMAQ cost benefit tables in that demand doesn’t fall after 10 years.

katjakircher.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's all great with bike lanes, and I get that they fulfil a purpose, but it also hurts to realise how they cement car dominance and how they symbolise giving in and accepting that streets belong to cars by default. Less reason to get rid of cars once bike lanes are in place in a way.

graue.bsky.social•10 days ago

Maybe it depends what stage of the transformation you're in. I live in what's supposed to be one of the best bike cities in the US, and even here we have neighborhoods where the streets are so unsafe, riding a bike would be a death wish. Under those conditions, banning cars is unthinkable.

katjakircher.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, I totally get that bike lanes are enablers in many cases and places, probably wherever there are cars, which basically is everywhere. I'm not arguing against bike lanes, I'm just sad about the inevitable discursive consequences.

pppatticake.bsky.social•10 days ago

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