Sentences with phrase «protected bike lanes reduced»

Because they shorten crossing distances, control turning conflicts and reduce traffic weaving, New York City's protected bike lanes reduced injury rates for people walking on their streets by 12 to 52 percent.

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Numerous studies document that protected bike lanes increase the rate of bicycling by an average of 75 percent, reduce bicycle and pedestrian injuries, relieve stress on the streets for drivers and spur economic growth in the neighborhoods where they are constructed.

Protected bike lanes have been shown to reduce traffic crashes for all users by 34 %.

To improve safety, he said, pedestrians and cyclists need physical barriers like protected bike lanes — an idea gaining popularity around the U.S. but also causing fights in some places over reduced parking or travel lanes.

Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel has a plan to expand Chicago's bicycle network that would reduce the number of Chicago bicycle accidents and give the city 100 miles of protected bike lanes by the end of his first term, the Sun - Times reported.

As cities and towns across the country are bolstering their efforts to reduce traffic congestion and pollution by becoming more pedestrian - and bicycle - friendly, new initiatives and policies like city - sponsored bikes and protected bike lanes are increasingly becoming a part of a city's infrastructure.

: Speed limits were reduced to 25 mph, $ 100 million was funneled to the creation of protected bike lanes, and the city continues to support