Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows (opens in new tab)  🚴Bicycle Infrastructure

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.