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One prominent local journalist attacked the protected bike lane network as «useless,» saying that because so few Sevillanos biked at the time, Sevillanos never would.

One of the most dramatic changes the Queens Activist Committee has wrought, seen by every person coming into Queens: a protected, safe approach to and from the Queensboro Bridge, with off - street, greenway - style bike lanes on Queens Plaza North and traffic calming at Columbus Triangle.

In 2014, the city council narrowly approved plans to create a 4 - mile network of protected bike lanes on four downtown streets all at once.

The ride started along the new Queensbridge Park Greenway, traveling through Sunnyside to Queens Boulevard and its new protected bike lanes, before wrapping up at Queens Borough Hall.

As cities work to address decades - long issues of equity in street design (low - income people in particular have a disproportionate risk of death or injury caused by traffic crashes), effective bike share station placement and planning can help close the gap by increasing pedestrian visibility at intersections, providing pedestrian refuge areas, protecting bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, and extending the reach of transit.

«NACTO's analysis confirms our experiences helping cities build protected bike lanes through our Green Lane Project,» said Martha Roskowski, Vice President of Local Innovation at PeopleForBikes.

Since coming to work at the League in 2012 I had learned about Davis - the city with the highest rates of bike use in the United States; Davis - the city that began experimenting with protected bike lanes in the 1970s; Davis - the university that is closed to most car traffic; Davis - the community where a Bicycle Hall of Fame anchors a town square.

I was surprised at how nice the protected bike lanes are, and at how many people are using them.

Some of the increase in ridership at each facility likely came from new riders (i.e. riders who, absent the protected bike lane, would have travelled via a different mode or would not have taken the trip) and some from riders diverted from other nearby streets (i.e. riders who were attracted to the route because of the facility, but would have chosen to ride a bicycle for that trip regardless).