I think he's serious. He sounds like somebody who might support marking narrow downtown travel lanes with center-of-the-lane sharrows, and promoting education and enforcement about cyclists claiming the lane and motorists changing lanes to pass, rather than reducing the number of lanes.

When you look at car-bike collision reports for downtown streets, and examine their corresponding causes, it becomes clear that bike lanes won't reduce collisions and may increase them, because they exacerbate the most common types of urban intersection collisions while attempting to reduce same-direction overtaking collisions that are extremely rare on downtown streets, and given the slower speeds downtown, no more severe.

I understand and support the motivation to make cyclists feel more comfortable and therefore encourage cycling, but like this author I think there are other ways to do it without eliminating general purpose travel lanes and channelizing traffic by vehicle type. Some streets could use road dieting and providing more room for overtaking cyclists without changing lane, but other downtown streets work better for both cycling and motoring by encouraging cyclists to control the lane.