I'm with you in your common sense, pretty much instinctive distrust of local govt. bureaucrats and their ability to "help" bike riders. What do most of them know about the subject? Little or nothing, and the little they think they know has been spoon fed to them by loud-mouthed activists with various agendas.
And what you end up with is something like the poster above described, painted lines and signs that everyone on a bike MUST follow by law, that go up onto sidewalks, make unsafe crossings, and lead unsuspecting bike riders into all kinds of various traps and pitfalls, designed by some dumb overpaid bureaucrat who has never lifted his fat leg over a bike even once in his entire worthless life. Because "Bike Safety!"
No thanks, spend that money on something else.