for all the wide ranging social benefits attendant with bicycling, its' not a mistaken belief in the superior value to be gained from normalizing bicycling as transportation for more of the american public.
Benefits that are as far reaching as senior mobility, environmental quality and mental health benefits to the public in addition to the more obvious benefits from encouraging and normalizing bicycling as a viable mode of personal transportation by planning for and encouraging bicyclists use of the public roads.
well considered regional transportation plans that include bicycle specific preferred class lanes along select transportation corridors will lead to greater ridership on ALL roads in a region.
more bikes on all roads in communities somehow creates "a force to take away our rights to ride in the street?" please.