For the pro-bicycle traffic engineers

If you are a traffic engineer, or know one, you should check this link.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2007/11/bicycle-advocates-many-times-in-my.html

In an article on Cyclicious, Robert M Shanteau, a traffic engineering consultant from Seaside, Calif., makes observations about traffic planning and cycling.
In brief, he suggests that there is so little statistical data on cycling that many engineers rely on intuition or supposition (thinking that cyclists prefer bicycle lanes, without surveying them to see if that is the case, for instance) when engineering road improvements.
Shanteau recounts many instances of blinkered thinking among his colleagues, including the planner who refused to believe that bicycles could trigger the road-surface magnetic induction units for traffic lights.
Shanteau is looking for others who have encountered such thinking, or those who can refute his position.
Contact him at:
Robert M Shanteau, PhD, PE
Consulting Traffic Engineer
13 Primrose Cir
Seaside, CA 93955-4133
Voice: (831) 394-9420
FAX: (831) 394-6045

If you are an unblinkered planner, here's a chance to boost about your success. If you know of one who isn't, you can rat them out.

(Thanks to Geoffrey for passing along the article.)