May 25, 2022 - Electric bicycle use has been booming over the last two years in the US and around the globe, and the best way to make riders safer is to protect them from cars reports Bloomberg.
In polling commissioned by PeopleforBikes in 2018 across eight U.S. cities, nearly 70% of respondents said roads are not safe enough for families to bike – 63% said they would ride if they felt safer.
In Philadelphia, a study in 2018 of new bikes lanes on a pair of main thoroughfares found that the number of riders nearly doubled. In city after city, when protected bike lanes are added to roadways, ridership increases.
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