Originally Posted by winston63

The current mayor is something of a controversial fellow, but he's an avid cyclist and he's unapologetically put in loads of separated bike lanes and infrastructure and taken that from motor vehicles (hence the shrieking). The funny thing is that after these changes are in place for a while it's hard to find anyone critical of the initiative as it seems to generally correlate with improved livability, more commerce for local businesses (who are usually the first to freak out) and fewer pedestrian/cyclist fatalities.