@enobacon@bikewazowski that's where Cambridge is excelling right now. They made a bike plan, then a law that says the city needs to install separated bike lanes on the major routes in the bike plan within a certain time, and it's actually making progress on that plan.
For some of the design work they take some counts to understand where people are going, but they know where people want to go already. Most streets are losing ~50% street parking, but it's still happening.
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