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San Jose’s new wide buffered bike lanes provide much more physical separation from vehicle traffic and parked cars than typical bike lanes.

San Jose's New Buffered Bike Lanes Benefit Everyone

Aug 16, 2012

San Jose has just done something unheard of in Silicon Valley - the city converted car lanes on several blocks of 3th, 4th, 10th, and 11th streets in downtown, all busy one-way streets with 3 lanes in each direction - a total of 8 miles [1] - to extra wide bike lanes separated by painted buffers from the remaining two lanes of car traffic. What's going on?

These bike lanes are just the... read the whole note.