If you build it & it's safe, they will use it!!

It's not just Hamilton!!

Even New York City is building and expanding protected bike lanes or cycle tracks.

Add judging by the number of cyclists, everyone from all ages uses them.

The creator of the video posted the following comments, "I've been riding in this city since the early 1990s. If you ever told the ever-optimistic 25 year old me that you'd see these numbers of people riding along the waterfront on Kent, I'd probably say you were dreaming. But sometimes with good planning and putting people first, dreams do come true."

With protected bike lanes, more will cycle, especially those concerned with safety.  This will mean fewer short trips by car and a happier healthier Burlington.

Vancouver - Bike lanes were good for business after all, restaurant owner says

Business owners were not happy!

 "adding bike lanes there would require moving several dozen street parking spaces onto nearby Main Street — so the city faced a firestorm from retailers and residents.

"To slash and burn like this is not going to work," Steve Da Cruz, owner of an upscale restaurant in the middle of the affected block, told the Vancouver Courier."

One year after installation, Da Cruz told Business in Vancouver that his restaurant was doing better than ever.

"We definitely have benefited from the increased usage of the bike lane," Da Cruz said.

http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/10-ways-cities-can-win-the-fight-to-upgrade-parking-spaces-to-bike-lanes

Bike lanes work!  They encourage more to cycle and are better for business.

Bike lanes are good for business - part 1

Numerous studies across North America show that cyclists are good for business.

Bike rack at WalMart

A new study by the University of Waterloo suggests up to 70 per cent of shoppers in uptown Waterloo traveled there by bicycle, public transit or on foot.

The study, completed by professors Markus Moos and Jeff Casello of the UW School of Planning, also found those who ride their bikes to shop in uptown spend about $30 during a single trip — the same amount as those who arrive by car and $10 more than those who walk or use public transit. Cyclists also make more trips, on average, than other transportation users.

http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news/survey-says-cars-no-longer-king-in-the-core/

Waterloo council understands its a myth that car shoppers are better than cyclists.