Was this narrow space considered a bike lane in this study?
“Evaluation of Wide Curb Lanes as Shared Lane Bicycle Facilities” is a 1985 report that is often cited in more recent bicycling research, so it deserves scrutiny. It was produced by the Maryland Department of Transportation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
Critique of: “Evaluation of Wide Curb Lanes as Shared Lane Bicycle Facilities” shows how this “research” is an early and seminal example of the junk science that pervades the bicycling literature.
