A Georgia Tech master's student is doing his thesis research on bike lanes, sharrows, bicycle priority lanes, bike boxes, and other innovative roadway treatments for bicycles. The goal of is to detremine how well bicyclists understand these different types of facilities, and how much they would use them if implemented. The goal is to gather valuable information about these different techniques to pass along to government agencies and other decision makers so that they can make better informed decisions about the expansion of bicycle lanes and facilities. The more bikers I get to take the survey, the better the research becomes!
If advancing the cause of science and helping out a student don't do it for you, all respondents will be entered for a chance to win a $100 gift card to REI!
Here is the link: www.surveymonkey.com/s/bikes
Interesting survey! I hate the current door zone bike lanes we have here in the city. Yet I found I felt more compelled to use those very lanes when the were painted. Not a good thing.
I think the best would be a combination of cycle tracks on busier routes and painted bike boulevards (what the survey called priority lanes).
Posted by: JeffB | May 24, 2011 at 02:38 AM
A good well constructed survey. I learned a couple of things too about the different types of bike lanes and improvements. Very interesting.
Posted by: Paul G | May 24, 2011 at 07:47 AM
Washcycle, can you tell us the right answers?
Posted by: Ren | May 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM
The correct answer is always "c"
Posted by: washcycle | May 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM
I think some of the scenarios depicted are very unlikely: one-lane, 45 MPH streets with on-street parking? But I tried to answer anyway.
Posted by: Nancy | May 24, 2011 at 01:38 PM
@Nancy - I put "Other" for every single one of those "Now imagine the speed limit is 45 mph..." cases, and wrote some variant that I don't know where the survey writers live, but I can't imagine a street that looked like that and had a 45 mph limit - and that someone should call DOT to look at resetting the speed, because even if there were no cyclists, a driver was going to lose a door in that scenario.
Posted by: Amber | May 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Same here on the 45 zones.
Posted by: Mark Williams | May 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM