Bike Lanes in New Orleans
University of Tulane, Prevention Research Center
Bike Lane Infrastructure Improves Ridership in New Orleans
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Tulane University PRC researchers assessed the promising built environment strategy of creating bicycle lanes to increase physical activity in New Orleans. The city installed its very first on-street bicycle lanes in the spring of 2008, and gave the researchers the unique opportunity to observe and evaluate the before and after effects of this new infrastructure on bicycle ridership.
Read journal article abstracts of the first studyexternal icon and the follow-up studyexternal icon (through PubMed).
Bike lanes can have a positive impact in creating a healthy neighborhood.
Page last reviewed: April 30, 2018