Originally Posted by hockeyteeth
My apology if I am off-topic, but why are so many people opposed to bike lanes? Is it because of visibility?
It's because of bike lanes like the one the poster described. When you call parking spaces the bike lane, it's pretty clear that your intention is not to provide amenities to cyclists but to get them off the road.
There's a very long sticky thread on bike lanes.
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