Building protected cycleways has huge health benefits and low cost | BikeBiz

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A new study from American academics shows that if a city constructs protected cycleways it leads to an uptick in health-enhancing riding. In short, adding cycleways to a city is a high value for money public-health investment. . . .

"Our regression analysis, to estimate the marginal addition of lane miles on the expansion in bike ridership, reveals that the 45.5 miles of bike lanes NYC constructed in 2015 at a cost of $8-million may increase the probability of riding bikes by 9.32 percent," said Mohit.

The study concludes that "investments in bicycle lanes come with an exceptionally good value because they simultaneously address multiple public-health problems" and they are "more cost-effective than the majority of preventive approaches used today."

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Building protected cycleways has huge health benefits and low cost | BikeBiz