Bike Shares Make Cities Safer For Bikers
Bike Share Users in New York City New York City DOT The New York Times looks at studies of urban bicycling. Want to make your city safer for bicyclists? Perhaps you should think about asking for a public bike-share program. Bike shares, such as the new system in New York City, improve accident rates for all bicyclists. What probably happens is that the increased numbers of bikers make motorists more aware of bikers, David Vlahov, the dean of nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, told the New York Times. According to the Times, biking accounts for 800 deaths and more than 500,000 emergency room visits a year in the U.S. The vast majority of visits and deaths result from head injury. A personal injury lawyer told the Times that most of his cases involved "dooring"-when a person in a car opens his door suddenly into a bike lane. In a...