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Trend to install protected cycle paths hailed in article on Daily Mail website

Lee Baker
23 August 2016
 

Bike lanes are "evolving" as they increasingly are being "changed to make them safer," according to an article published on the Daily Mail's website today. 

The article by Associated Press highlights how 'cycletracks' with physical barriers from vehicle traffic are being introduced in cities in the U.S over the last decade, with New York introducing them widely since 2007, and now, according to an advocacy group quoted, People for Bikes, "240 miles of [segregated] lanes in 94 cities - an increase from about 100 miles in 2013," and with promises to bring them to further cities such as Chicago.

The article goes on to say that cyclists have had problems with some of the cycletracks, with vehicles parking in 'raised' bike lanes in San Francisco, an "impractical" cycletrack in the centre of a broad thoroughfare passing by the White House in Washington D.C, and "bitter" opposition in New York and Philadelphia.

It says that the idea is not new in Europe, and is being extended in London, and mentions that Chinese, Indian and Argentinian cities are all planning or building cycletracks too. It adds that Tokyo's protected lanes are placed on pavements, leading to pedestrians and cyclists conflict.

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