"Ridership data for a year-old protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn - which was scaled back by the former mayor - appears to confirm the longstanding hypothesis that safer bike lanes mean more bikers. The statistics should persuade Mayor Mamdani to ignore local resistance and repair his predecessor's damage by fully protecting the path and expanding the city's bike lane network at a much faster pace."
"The green lane on Bedford Avenue became an enduring symbol of New York City's trilateral culture war between car drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists. But it also offered an opportunity to measure the real-world effects of installing a protected cycling path on bike usage and traffic. To do so, I built a web app that aggregates Citi Bike trip data across the five boroughs - with a twist."
Ridership data for a year-old protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn appears to confirm the longstanding hypothesis that safer bike lanes mean more bikers. The protected lane attracted nearly 60 percent more cyclists in the year since its debut, with some months showing larger year-over-year increases. The lane was partially scaled back by a previous mayor when three northernmost blocks were reverted to unprotected paint. A web app was built to aggregate Citi Bike trip data across the five boroughs to measure cycling flows, while acknowledging that raw Citi Bike data omit private-bike trips and exact pre/post-trip movements.
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