The Minnesota Department of Transportation recently published a report entitled TOOLS FOR PREDICTING USAGE AND BENEFITS OF URBAN BICYCLE NETWORK IMPROVEMENTS.

Summary from page 6:
“Generally speaking, the results support the notion that people value bicycle facilities, in that they are willing to incur additional time costs in order to use higher quality facilities. In particular, people value having striped bike lanes. The incremental value of this improvement is much greater than the incremental value of moving the facility off-road entirely. The presence of facilities also appears to be associated with higher amounts of riding, although the precise nature of the impact is still unclear. From this research, it appears that a facility can increase the amount of riding in an area even up to one and a half miles from the ends of the facility, but it is not clear whether the effect is larger for residents that are closer than this.”

Tags: On-road bicycling, Planning

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