Why protected bike lanes are more valuable than parking spaces

America’s first parking-protected bike lane came to New York City in 2007. Here’s what happened next. Subscribe to our channel! When Janette Sadik-Khan was hired as chief transportation official for New York City in 2007, she took a page out of Denmark’s playbook and created America’s first parking-protected bike lane, right in the middle of downtown Manhattan. A parking protected bike lane created a buffer between the traffic of cars, trucks and buses and cyclists. But it also elimi