Medford removing controversial bike lanes on Main Street
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The Medford City Council voted this week to abandon its controversial bike lanes on Main Street, just three years after installing them.

In 2023, the city reduced the street from three lanes to two and installed protected two-way bike lanes with a state grant intended to improve bike safety. The project cost almost half a million dollars.

Counts of bicycle traffic since the bike lanes were installed showed that traffic increased sixfold. Engineers also didn’t find any major congestion issues with automobiles after the revamp.

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  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I do certainly think that adding a bike lane to existing roads almost always leads at least one headache inducing intersection, but if more people are biking then its effective and should stay. Fix the damn intersections!