Ben Matern
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Ben Matern
@baenpb.bsky.social
I sometimes do bioinformatics and HLA and games and guitar.
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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
September 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Reposted by Ben Matern
I got 99 problems and they ain’t red balloons
June 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM