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Originally Posted by B. Carfree
Hmm, he's very impressed with the situation in NYC, which "boasts" a cycling rate that is all of twice our paltry national average and has been flat for half a decade. He quotes Geller of Portland, OR, where the rate of bicycle use has been unchanged for a decade now in spite of the constant addition of ever-more "protected" infrastructure. Oddly, he calls bike lanes the spawn of "vehicular cyclists" which is going to come as news to anyone who has been around a while; vehicular cyclists didn't want any bike lanes anywhere.

The pragmatics among cycling advocates usually see room for a lot of different facilities. Bike lanes are great in many places, but frequently fail when they are either overly narrow or are placed in door zones. Off road paths certainly have a place, but trying to call a sidewalk an off-road path is generally a recipe for disaster because of the intersection issue (which also dooms many so-called "protected" facilities).

Fanatics like this guy aren't going to listen to any evidence that their religion is killing cycling, but that's what they are doing. I get especially worked up over their constant harping on the perceived dangers of cycling when it's safety record is on a par with motoring and is much safer than walking; where are the calls for motoring and walking helmets? Subtract the drunk riders coming home from the bar (often without lights) and cycling may be safer per mile than driving, but you'd never suspect any such thing if you listened to these folks.
Right, because "vehicular cycling" was increasing cycling modal share soooo successfully.

Meanwhile, "build it and they will come," apparently IS working...

As the research predicted, better bike lanes have led to far more people biking. Over three-quarters of a million people ride a bike multiple times a month in New York, a 49 percent increase over 2009. Between 2005 and 2015, the share of commuters who bike to work more than doubled in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., according to an analysis of U.S. Census data.
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