Protecting Pedestrians: Bike Rack Use Helps Increase City's Safety

Funded by a $110K Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Community Legacy grant, bike racks located throughout the city have helped decrease pedestrian-biker-automobile accidents.

<a href="http://hyattsville.patch.com/articles/bike-rack-use-helps-increase-pedestrian-safety">http://hyattsville.patch.com/articles/bike-rack-use-helps-increase-pedestrian-safety</a>;
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[B' Spokes: Ha, on one hand this article is really messed up but on the other it can be explained. IMHO bike racks are the cheapest thing you can do to help promote more cycling. With more cyclists on the road there is an improved overall safety (the safety in numbers effect.) And as drivers become aware of cyclists they also become aware of pedestrians. (Accommodations for one mode (cyclists or pedestrians) will also improve the safety of the other.) I'm not sure if bike racks alone can improve pedestrian safety as they usually talk about bike lanes in this context but it is a start and its how Baltimore started. So starting to implement a bike master plan should eventually end up decreasing pedestrian-biker-automobile accidents, there it makes sense now.]