THE PEKING ACROBATS

“Complete streets or road diets that increase congestion are a popular movement in American cities to encourage walking and cycling. Most cities with high rates of bicycle commuting, such as Boulder, are college towns with young populations. erefore, demographics rather than street design may have the greatest in uence on cycling and walking,” it reads.

It also says that complying with the new rules may present challenges for “rural areas and those with a lower population density” because of di erences between urban and rural lifestyles.

“If we really had that much pentup desire to ride bikes and commute on bikes, I think we’d already see more bike riders,” he said.

Hultin sees it di erently, that more, safer infrastructure will bring out more bikers.

She challenges local governments to rethink transportation projects and to make biking and other modes of transportation safer. Not pitting modes of travel against each other, but making roads more accessible to a more diverse group of users.

“(Local governments should) take in projects that serve, walking, biking, transit, and make sure that those are a priority for funding ahead of the car expansion projects,” she said.