During an NPR news piece on the debate over bike lanes, NPR quoted Tom Vanderbilt, the author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What is Says About Us, as saying that statistics show that bike lanes improve a street’s safety record for all who use the street. But NPR explained that one big obstacle to more bike lanes may be cyclists themselves. Citing to an article in Bicycling magazine, the news piece stated that cyclists are often considered rude and dismissive of road laws. But the article’s authors maintain that cyclists may not be the worst offenders. They claim that both cyclists and motor vehicle drivers break the law with similar frequency but cyclists are more visible than drivers when they do.
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