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Historically, bike lanes were added to move the bikes off the road in order to keep the car traffic flowing. They have had nothing to do with cyclist or pedestr

Historically, bike lanes were added to move the bikes off the road in order to keep the car traffic flowing. They have had nothing to do with cyclist or pedestrian safety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cycling_infrastructure#Early_20th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cycling_infrastruct... https://www.vox.com/2014/9/8/6121129/bike-lanes-traffic-new-york https://www.vox.com/2014/9/8/6121129/bike-lanes-traffic-new-... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-05/when-adding-bike-lanes-actually-reduces-traffic-delays https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-05/when-addi... Edit: added Wikipedia link

codingdave 5y ago
Hm. The Vox article that you posted starts with: "The main point of building protected lanes was to make biking in the city safer." The Bloomberg article is talking about the same data, where the flow was found as an added benefit, not the point of the infrastructure work. Your Wikipedia article states that the original designs that were driven by the auto industry were nixed and replaced with safety-driven designs which are still in place today.