Not to overdo it with the bike lane news, but it seems the mystery of the phone survey we mentioned the other day has been solved. Streetsblog reports that Assembly Member Jim Brennan’s office has just released the results of a poll it conducted, and it appears to have been the same poll. The results [PDF] find that a majority of people favor the bike lane:
By an overall margin of 48 percent to 32 percent, more people feel the redesign has improved the street than made it worse. A similar margin prefer to keep the redesign than to get rid of it — 44 percent to 28 percent, with 25 percent choosing the option of “altering it to respond to pedestrian and driver concerns.”
The poll surveyed 500 voters, randomly selected and called from a list of 25,000 voters in Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Kensington. Streetsblog notes that the sample seems to favor car owners, though only 49 percent of households in Brennan’s district own cars.
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