Category: politics

Bike lanes and traffic congestion

Via Streetsblog comes this look at traffic volumes in Minneapolis before and after bike lanes are installed.

Minneapolis measures AADT [Average Annual Daily Traffic] on the same roads every few years, so we have data from before the bike lane installation (in 2008 or 2009, depending on the road) and after the installation (in 2012). We found that each road seemed to have about the same traffic volume after its bike lane was installed. Running a statistical test across all 10 roads confirmed that there was no difference in AADT before and after the installation of the bike lanes.

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French cabinet minister Aurélie Filippetti bikes to work

French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti rides a bicycle to a meeting at Elysee Palace in Paris as her bodyguard follows closely behind.

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