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Originally Posted by marsplasticeraser
Bike lanes only benefit bikers?
Bike lanes benefit anybody who commutes, I’d say most directly benefiting are commuters in cars.
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Every road with bike lanes has a sharply reduced capacity for motor traffic. That doesn't benefit commuters in cars; it increases congestion and hurts commuters. (It also hurts commuters on buses, so don't try the transit angle either.)
In rush hour, those parts of the road that are now bike lanes were filled to capacity with vehicles. Now they're virtually empty. I spend a lot of time in the inner city, and I have yet to see heavy traffic in a bike lane.
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Bike lanes take cars off the road.
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They take a very small number of cars off the road, if you measure the actual bike traffic compared to the vehicular traffic that used to use the road.
But by all means, go on telling yourself that, because otherwise you wouldn't be able to justify narrowing the roads and worsening traffic jams as a form of virtue-signalling.