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Channel: Vox
Categories: Society / Culture   |   Environmental   |   Social Science  
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America's first parking-protected bike lane came to New York City in 2007. Here's what happened next.

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When Janette Sadik-Khan was hired as chief transportation official for New York City in 2007, she took a page out of Denmark’s playbook and created America’s first parking-protected bike lane, right in the middle of downtown Manhattan.

A parking protected bike lane created a buffer between the traffic of cars, trucks and buses and cyclists. But it also eliminated parking spots.

The protected lanes didn't just make the streets safer for those on bikes; they also improved traffic flow for vehicles and spurred increased retail sales for businesses nearby.

You can read more about the 9th avenue protected bike lane pilot program here:
https://nacto.org/case-study/ninth-avenue-complete-street-new-york-city/

And you read a full study on all of the data used in this video here:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/cycling-in-the-city.pdf

Here is a full inventory of all implemented + planned protected cycle tracks in New York City:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc-protected-bike-lanes.pdf

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