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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
How harsh of you. What a bad comparison.
A better analogy for building bike lanes would be making condoms available to teens.
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That's a worse analogy because if we run short of condoms due to handing them out to teenagers, we just make more, which is not quite so easy when you are talking about roads. Bike lanes being retro-fitted onto streets that, in general, are not widened to account for their presence, are using up finite resources for the benefit of a few malcontent scoff-laws. It's especially galling when these lanes sit unused while the cyclists pedal madly down the adjoining sidewalk.
I'd rather spend the money on a few auxiliary officers detailed only for enforcing traffic laws on cyclists (and skateboarders!) in the most draconian and inflexible manner. Once these rapscallions have adjusted their habits and attitudes, then we can talk about doing something to reward them.