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Table 1 Changes in cycle lane features in intervention streets

From: Impacts of new cycle infrastructure on cycling levels in two French cities: an interrupted time series analysis

Intervention street

Increase in length (km)

Width

Infrastructure type a

Direction b

Paris

  Rue de Rivoli

1.7

Increase

Added physically segregated cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  Boulevard Voltaire

1.4

Increase

Added physically segregated cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  Rue Julia Bartet*

0.3

No change

No change

No change

  Boulevard Diderot

0.1

Increase

Added painted cycle lane

No change

  Rue d'Aubervilliers

0.3

Increase

No change

Added bi-directionality

  Avenue de la Porte des Ternes

0.2

No change

Added physically segregated cycle lane

No change

  Rue de Turbigo

0.2

Increase

Added physically segregated cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  Rue Lecourbe

0.6

Increase

Added physically segregated cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

Lyon

  Rue Victor Lagrange

0.5

Increase

Added shared lane marking (sharrow)

Added contra-traffic direction

  Quai Hippolyte Jaÿr

0.2

Increase

Added physically segregated cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  Cours Gambetta

0.4

Decrease

Converted cycle lane to shared bus lane

No change

  Quai Claude Bernard

0.6

Increase

Added physically segregated cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  Rue de la Viabert

0.1

Increase

Painted cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  Cours Albert Thomas

1.5

Decrease

Converted cycle lane to shared bus lane

No change

  Avenue Félix Faure

0.1

Increase

Added painted cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  Rue Vauban

0.2

No change

Added painted cycle lane

Added contra-flow direction

  Rue Rabelais

0.2

Increase

Added shared lane marking (sharrow)

Added contra-flow direction

  Boulevard Pinel

2.0

Increase

Added physically segregated cycle lane

Added bi-directionality

  1. * The only change was a new surface treatment of the existing cycle lane
  2. a Sharrows comprise a sign of a bicycle with or without wide arrows painted on road surfaces to indicate where cyclists and motorists should share the road
  3. b Bi-directional cycle lanes refer to cycle lanes which allow cyclists to go with and against traffic on the same side of the road; contra-flow cycle lanes refer to those which allow cyclists to travel against traffic