Yep, exactly. What really gets my blood boiling are the morons that think we can control it. Heck the majority of these “experts” have a hard enough time controlling their bi-cycles commuting to work let alone the weather. I hear about a lot of them getting wrapped up under cement trucks, garbage trucks and other vehicles almost every day in Portland. I can’t help but chuckle whenever I hear about one of the spandex mafia ending up as a speed bump.
That brings a smile to my face just thinking about it. We are presently experiencing a remodeling of many of the city streets while they are being resurfaced here in Cleveland. We now have an abundance of bike lanes making traffic on surface roads a nightmare by eliminating two out of five lanes on most main arteries. Instead of four lanes and a turning lane we have a turning lane and two vehicle lanes and two dedicated bike lanes.
This is because they are using some Federal money on these roads and bike lanes are mandated. Yet, I never see a bike in the lanes and the weather in my area is too unpredictable or too cold to peddle a bike more than half the year anyway. The bike enthusiasts must have some powerful lobbyists.
BTW: I don’t ever remember seeing an actual bike rider in any of the new bike lanes.