<https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianafurchtgott-roth/2022/09/08/bike-lanes-dont-make-cycling-safe/>
QUOTE The problem was originally described by industrial engineer John Forester in his 800-page book Effective Cycling, which boasted seven
editions (MIT Press, 2012).
Forester estimated that accidents on bike lanes are 2.6 times higher than
on roadways, because bike paths are more dangerous. He forecast more
car-bike collisions, because it is difficult to make intersections between cycle lanes and roads as safe as normal roads. Almost 90 percent of urban accidents were caused by crossing or turning—either by the cyclist failing to obey the rules of the road or the motorist turning into the cyclist, as happened in the case of Langenkamp.
Writing about California plans for bike lanes, Forester stated, “Nobody with traffic-engineering training could believe that [bikeway] designs that so contradicted normal traffic-engineering knowledge would produce safe traffic movements.... If these designs had been proposed for some class of motorized traffic—say, trucks or motorcycles—the designers would have been
considered crazy.”ENDQUOTE
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianafurchtgott-roth/2022/09/08/bike-lanes-dont-make-cycling-safe/>
QUOTE The problem was originally described by industrial engineer John Forester in his 800-page book Effective Cycling, which boasted seven
editions (MIT Press, 2012).
Forester estimated that accidents on bike lanes are 2.6 times higher than
on roadways, because bike paths are more dangerous. He forecast more
car-bike collisions, because it is difficult to make intersections between cycle lanes and roads as safe as normal roads. Almost 90 percent of urban accidents were caused by crossing or turning—either by the cyclist failing to obey the rules of the road or the motorist turning into the cyclist, as happened in the case of Langenkamp.
Writing about California plans for bike lanes, Forester stated, “Nobody with traffic-engineering training could believe that [bikeway] designs that so contradicted normal traffic-engineering knowledge would produce safe traffic movements.... If these designs had been proposed for some class of motorized traffic—say, trucks or motorcycles—the designers would have been
considered crazy.”ENDQUOTE
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