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Originally Posted by Canehdianman
I would say the 20% figure is highly suspect (not to mention that your numbers are a 5% increase, not 20%).
I was just surprised that the end result of adding bike lanes in certain areas is going to be a slower commute for 99.9% of people. Maybe I'm just not aware of the cyclist safety issues that exist downtown? Regardless, it doesn't seem very logical to me to slow down the commute for the majority of people unless there is a large safety issue at play.
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You're missing a big part of the point. This isn't simply to make it safer for the people on bikes, it's to encourage others to use them as well. Reduce the cars on the road, reduce the congestion, etc.
Interestingly though, I would challenge the 99.9% numbers (which I realize wasn't intended as scientific). The building I work in has ~300 bicycles in the lock-up each day (not counting those who lock up outside and/or elsewhere). For a building with ~30 stories and a couple thousand people in it, that's gotta be in that 10-20% range.
People don't seem to realize just how many cyclists are on the road each day. Probably because they use a 10th of the space and (in the core) move twice as fast.