April 11, 2021 - Recent research has found that in cities where bike infrastructure was added, cycling had increased up to 48 percent more than in cities that did not add bike lanes reports The New York Times.

Published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the findings add to a growing body of research indicating that investments in cycling infrastructure can encourage more people to commute by bike, which helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve health.

“It’s the first piece of evidence we have trying to, at a larger scale, link the bikeway infrastructure — these pop-up bike lanes and things that were built — to cycling levels during Covid,” said Ralph Buehler, chairman of urban affairs and planning in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, who was not involved in the study.

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