"working with the mircromobility outfit Lime, recently reported a whopping 207-percent increase in shared bike and scooter trips along corridors where the city of Baltimore had installed new protected bike lanes. Nashville (39 percent) and Phoenix (35 percent) also reported significant jumps along their latest protected cycling corridors - growth that the study authors say only seems modest because of factors like the time of year they were installed, or the presence of other micromobility operators that shared the market with Lime."
"All three markets, meanwhile, reported greater than 19-percent decreases in "reported safety incidents" on routes where bike lanes went in, which included not just crashes with drivers, but also crashes with pedestrians, other micro mobility users, and even one-vehicle crashes. That gold mine of ridership and safety data, though, is rarely available to cities, which often can't afford to install bike counters or scour police and hospital records for solid information on the impacts of their cycling investments."
Installing protected bike lanes increases shared bike and scooter ridership and improves safety. The League of American Bicyclists, working with Lime, found a 207-percent increase in shared trips along Baltimore corridors with new protected lanes, and 39-percent and 35-percent increases in Nashville and Phoenix respectively. All three markets reported greater than 19-percent decreases in reported safety incidents on those routes, including crashes with drivers, pedestrians, other micromobility users, and single-vehicle crashes. Many cities lack comprehensive ridership and safety data because bike counters and detailed police or hospital records are costly to obtain. Leveraging shared-micromobility data can help quantify impacts of cycling investments.
Read at Streetsblog
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]