THE FEDS JUMP ON BOARD: PROTECTED BIKE LANES ARE NOW OFFICIAL FEDERAL POLICY | People for Bikes

Oak Street, San Francisco. Photo: SFMTA. 

Protected bike lanes are now officially star-spangled.

Eight years after New York City created a Netherlands-inspired bikeway on 9th Avenue by putting it on the curb side of a car parking lane, the physically separated designs once perceived as outlandish haven't just become increasingly common from coast to coast — they've been detailed in a new design guide by the Federal Highway Adminstration.

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