Proposals for new or expanded bike lanes are often met with fierce backlash, in a phenomenon dubbed “bikelash,” with car drivers reluctant to lose any street space.

Yet our study finds that the current imbalance of spatial allocation is so overwhelmingly in favour of cars that it’s possible to make substantial improvements to bike infrastructure without significantly decreasing the space allocated per driver.

After all, a key advantage of bicycles is their incredible space-efficiency. Even if all the bike infrastructure space in the city were to double, the proportion of roadway given to cars would not fall below 90 per cent in any borough.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seems you posted this three times, to different communities, you can cross post the original instead! It's just better IMO. And let's you find new similar communities!

[–] otters_raft@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

I actually use lemmy-schedule for these posts, which seems to do it in this format. Maybe I can add the other communities to the post body to make discoverability easier :)

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

On streets? Or on strodes?

Streets are destinations, Roads are throughways and look similar to a hwy with no business or driveways lining them.