On: Roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer: study

[amalcon]

The stats are quite clear that protected bicycle lanes improve bicyclist safety. The article literally cites such a study.

[jtms → amalcon]

Maybe overall this is true, but in NYC there are very few lanes I’d consider truly protected - the rest are minefields and generally less safe

[hannasanarion → jtms]

Yeah, which is why NYC needs more protected bike lanes, and we should call out DeBlasio when he uses garbage definitions for "protected" like "two lines of paint instead of one" like he did last year. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/12/20/fact-check-city-did-n...

[fhbdukfrh → amalcon]

The study supports safety for cyclists but i missed any reference to the safety for drivers that the article purports it found

[dougmany → fhbdukfrh]

There is a link to another article that states:

>“Bike facilities end up slowing cars down, even when a driver hits another driver, it’s less likely to be a fatality because it’s happening at a slower speed,” Marshall said.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-sepa...

[jtms → fhbdukfrh]

Is collision with a cyclist really a safety risk for an automobile driver? A minor ding for a car is a fatality for a cyclist

[hannasanarion → jtms]

As measured in a reduction of damage from accidents, yeah. If cars travel at lower speed, they're less likely to crash and when they do, it won't be as expensive to fix.

[vonmoltke → jtms]

Hitting a cyclist hard enough to kill them is not a "minor ding", except in unusual circumstances.