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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to add an extra 18 miles of protected bikes lanes by the end of this year, expanding the city's two - wheeled network up to 75 miles.

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.

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The petition, signed by almost 800 people as of Saturday, asks the city to consider a two - way protected bike lane — similar to the one on Prospect Park West — from Grand Army Plaza to Empire Boulevard.

«With nine new Hubway stations and an additional two miles of protected, low - stress bike lanes on the way this year, residents will have a better opportunity to travel by bike throughout Somerville — and beyond.

Even the design of Sevilla's protected bike lanes was shaped by the looming risk of a backlash.

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.

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.

But they went from 0.6 percent of trips by bike to almost seven percent in three years by building a connected grid of 100 miles of protected bike lanes.»

With the support of hundreds of Brooklynites, the Brooklyn Activist Committee members hosted a street rally and a family bike parade in support of the two - way protected bike lane on Prospect Park West, which they helped secure by being an active force in the local community.

When protected bike lanes are installed in New York City, injury crashes for all road users (drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists) typically drop by 40 percent and by more than 50 percent in some locations.

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.

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.

Where protected lanes were installed in New York and Washington D.C., the number of bikes on sidewalks immediately fell by an average of 56 percent.

Boulder has also installed a pilot protected bike lane, allowed electric bikes on paths to accommodate an aging population, and will nearly double its bike - share system by adding 16 more stations.

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

And while cities are making efforts to protect their bikers by adding signals to their bike lanes, there are no surefire safeguards in place to guarantee the safety of riders across the county.

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.