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Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows

Protected bike lanes increase Citi Bike ridership in New York City, but painted bike lanes and sharrows do not show a statistically significant causal effect on ridership after accounting for confounding factors, according to a new study from researchers at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering publish...

Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows
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Protected bike lanes increase Citi Bike ridership in New York City, but painted bike lanes and sharrows do not show a statistically significant causal effect on ridership after accounting for confounding factors, according to a new study from researchers at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering published this week in npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport.

Originally published at Phys.org

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