Brooklyn bike lane may have reduced speeding

Fewer cyclists on sidewalks

Jon Boyd, Oct 21, 10.

New York City Department of Transportation data says a Brooklyn street has fewer speeders and cyclists riding on sidewalks since the installation of a bike lane, according to Kate Hinds of Transportation Nation:

On a day with competing rallies about the controversial bike lane that the city installed on Prospect Park West in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, the city’s Department of Transportation released some data that it says shows the two-way, protected bike lane is doing what it was meant to do – slow traffic and get bicyclists off the sidewalks.

A city DOT spokesperson said today that preliminary data shows that before the bike lane, three out of four cars on Prospect Park West were speeding. The agency says that number has dropped to one in seven. And the DOT says almost half of all cyclists used to ride on the sidewalk . That number has decreased to four percent.

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