An eight-minute video explains the importance of bike lanes for traffic safety and illustrates some of the risks for people on bikes even with higher-quality bike lane infrastructure in place.
"While bike lanes are substantially safer than sharing a road with vehicles, they still aren't perfect," according to a recent video by Cheddar. "And one flaw in particular can often be fatal."
The design flaw is in question causes the "infamous right hook crash," but a lot more on the importance of bike lanes to traffic safety and the details of bike lane design are included in the video. Helpful animations are included to illustrate the risks of biking in traffic—with or without bike lanes.
Hat tip to Stephen Fesler at The Urbanist for sharing the video.
FULL STORY: Bike Lanes Have A Deadly Design Flaw
USDOT secretary plans to pull $1.73B from 'DEI bike lanes'
The move jeopardizes dozens of road safety projects around the country.
Salt Lake City opens protected bike path on viaduct trail
The 400 South Viaduct Trail features the state's longest continuous piece of public art.
Lawsuit Delays DC Bike Lane Closure Until at Least April
Crashes on 15th Street dropped by 46% since the bike lanes were added.
The state-sanctioned urbicide of Austin
People don’t kill cities. Freeways do.
US to reduce Colorado River water deliveries to Mexico
A new Colorado Treaty amendment reduces Mexico’s Colorado River water allocation by 250,000 acre feet.
New Jersey’s second-largest city bans standalone data centers
Jersey City will continue to allow co-location facilities, such as those meant for research institutions that store their own data.
Amtrak not solely to blame for New Jersey commuter rail's unreliability, report finds
A new study from the Garden State Initiative found that NJ Transit’s budget grew 20% across a 4 year period, but reliability declined significantly over the same period.
EPA erases limits on planet-warming pollution from power plants
Under Monday’s plan, power plants would still have some limits on how much mercury, arsenic and other contaminants they can emit.
Phoenix announces new on-demand transit service, more frequent RAPID buses
Both new services will launch in October, and are part of Phoenix's Project Effective Access Solutions for Easing Congestion.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nashville Planning Department
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association