Beyond gutter size bike lanes, here are other reasons why they aren’t used:
- painted lanes along a busy, dangerous road
- lanes disconnected from a network
- lanes going to no meaningful destination (eg in industrial areas)
- some painted lanes in very low density residential areas
Alessandro Rigolon
There are absolutely bike lanes that are not heavily used. But the correct response is to analyze why they're not being used, instead of saying, "Let's rip them out!" It turns out that a strip of a paint on an otherwise busy road doesn't make people feel safe and make them want to bike.
Gravel Influencer
Kind of depends on the bike lanes, too. In my city a lot of "bike lanes" basically just had you riding in the gutter with the trash, right next to speeding cars. Not very helpful.
