Originally Posted by
Bekologist
When an official government publication contains so many claims that have been demonstrated to be not supported by the documents referenced, it becomes no more than a propaganda piece that should not be trusted for any substantive information. I repeat: despite the fact that American bike lanes have been promoted for forty years, there has never been a study demonstrating both that the bike-lane stripe significantly reduces car-bike collisions accompanied by a description of how it does this.
The most significant contributions of bike lanes appear to be in the propaganda effects of reducing sidewalk cycling and, perhaps, wrong-way cycling.