Anne Lusk, CityLab
Publication date: February 2019
Ranking: useful:
You Can’t Design Bike-Friendly Cities Without Considering Race and 
Class
So what’s the issue?
Research by the Harvard T H Chan School of Health with specially formed Boston focus groups identified:
- Cycling is a method of transportation that helps reduce inequality
- Its growing fastest in the U.S. amongst Hispanic, African-American and Asian-American riders, (since 2001)
- Minority neighbourhoods have fewer cycling facilities
- Riders face higher risk of accidents and crashes
- Cycle lanes and better designed ones are more common in affluent areas
- Discussion groups highlighted what would make:
- cycle lanes safer, (location, design and route planning)
- more attractive and
- help reduce incidents of bike theft.
- Discussion groups actually came up with same principles approved in national guidance
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