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bike lanes don't harm business

2026-05-20 19:49:06.038853+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Chicago Streetsblog: New CDOT report finds that while bike lanes improved safety, they didn’t harm businesses, and may help make corridors more economically resilient

The new “CDOT Economic Impacts of Bike Lanes Study” examined six Chicago corridors where bike lanes were installed and compared them to nearby “control” corridors without bike lanes. While the report stops short of claiming bike lanes directly caused economic growth, it repeatedly found that bike lane corridors performed similarly to — or in several cases better than — their comparison corridors on measures like employment, commercial vacancy, sales tax revenue recovery, and property values.

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