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.
Same in Portland, what I would like to see is, mandatory licensing and liability insurence for bi-cyclists, they pay nothing for those streets yet demand improvements. But if you mention those two things they scream discrimination. Honestly if I ran over one of the spandex mafia and it was completely their fault, I would put it in reverse, just to make sure their stupidity was rewarded. If it was my fault, of course I would stick around and make sure they got the emergency services I pay for.
Flipping liberals, sometimes I wish I could be so oblivious to reality as them.