Originally Posted by Bekologist
I agree, however, that the element of public awareness camapigns about cyclists' rights to the road should be an important part of bicycling advocacy. no city will ever become 100% bike laned, that is not even considered desireable by bike infrastructure advocates.
I believe (as do you, correct?) that increasing bikeability of roads to be an important facet of transportation planning.
Yes, of course. But the changes advocated by bicycle advocates in this discussion group are not devoted to bikeability in any rational way. Rather, they reduce the bikeability of the roads to which they are applied, because the complicate the rules of the road and make cycling more difficult, and therefore more dangerous. Bikeability improvements should be devoted to improving the ability of cyclists to operate properly, rather than encouraging improper operation. There's no magic to doing things right, except that most on this list would rather do things improperly.