New protected bike lanes are in green, conventional bike lanes in red, bike boulevards in yellow and undetermined segments in pink. Image from the draft protected bikeway update to Minneapolis's bike master plan.
Minneapolis is getting well-earned praise from around the world this week for drafting one of the boldest short-term bike proposals in the country: 30 or more miles of newly protected bikeways as soon as 2020.
It's a mark of success for the Twin Cities' remarkable Bikeways for Everyone campaign, which is staffed by the local bike advocacy group, gets core funding from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and keeps a laser focus on serving the bike users of tomorrow rather than just the ones of today.
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