If you build it, they will use it...

With the new bike lanes downtown less than one month old, I've already noticed some changes. Traffic has slowed somewhat. It's not the raceway it used to be on the one way streets. Also 3rd and 4th Street may start to look a little like N. Williams Street in Portland (bicycle related commerce). I've already spotted a guy or gal who has started selling bikes that are displayed on the driveway facing the bike lane. Maybe next we'll see a bicycle repair shop?

Also the picture below shows a sight I don't think I've seen downtown; a mother with her infant child in a front mounted seat. Notice she is using a bike with electric assist.

With the 10th Street bike lane in use for last Friday's bike party, over 4,500 cyclists had a chance to use the lane. If that's not example of "If you build it they will come."