Citation

Lusk AC, Morency P, Miranda-Moreno LF, Willett WC, Dennerlein JT. Am. J. Public Health 2013; 103(10): e8.

Affiliation

Anne C. Lusk is with the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Patrick Morency is with the Direction de santé publique de Montréal and the Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec. Luis F. Miranda-Moreno is with the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montreal. Walter C. Willett is with the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Jack T. Dennerlein is with Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University and the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2013.301531

PMID

23947311

Abstract

We thank Schimek for his thoughtful letter. We agree that the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) encourages bike paths; however, AASHTO's definition of a bike path is a shared use path for pedestrians, skaters, wheelchair users, joggers, and other nonmotorized users. AASHTO discourages bicycle-only cycle tracks because, as noted by Schimek, AASHTO discourages bike lanes on the roadway separated from travel lanes by parked cars or raised barriers.(1,2) (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print August 15, 2013: e1. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301531).

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