the economics of bike lanes
2019-01-15 22:23:38.063609+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Bike lanes prove that transportation solutions can be cheap and effective:
These two transportation projects, installed in months at a total cost of less than $3 million, have brought about 20,000 new commuters travelling into the downtown core each day while making the roads safer and without making commute times dramatically worse for anyone.
20k new commuters, each way, commuter autombiles generally run about 1.2 occupancy, 1800 cars per lane per hour, so $3M got them something like 26 lane hours worth of capacity? Not to mention parking issues? Hell yeah that's a pay-off.