“If your city doesn’t have a protected bike lane yet, it’s being left behind”

“It is no longer just reserved for the Portlands and the Boulders of the world”

“The protected bike lane can make a huge difference, in particular for the average person who maybe doesn’t ride every day,” Klein said. “It will make them feel like ‘I can get on a bike too,’ or ‘I wouldn’t mind if my child rode a bike to school.’”

Impact of a protected bike lane in New York:

• Reduced speeding rates from 74 percent to 20 percent
• Crashes and injuries of all kinds have dropped by 63 percent
• Travel times for motorists did not increase
• Congestion did not increase
• More than 70 percent of neighborhood residents support the improvement

Learn more at MomentumMag.com, by Angie Schmitt:  The Rise of The North American Protected Bike

from NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide

Redding’s first protected bikeway.  Temporary in 2013.