First things first: good job on de-rusting the bike.

I'm not seeing how any of the upcoming revised editions of US bicycle references will change the status quo. The AASHTO Bike Guide hasn't supported mandatory bike lane usage in decades, and the MUTCD isn't really worded to support it either. Work on the Rules of the Road chapter of the Uniform Vehicle Code has been slow as most of the people working on it have been otherwise occupied, and even it doesn't contain any mandatory bike lane language. None of the national references to my knowledge support mandatory BLs, and yet some politicians and decisionmakers insist on imposing it - in spite of the vast absence of support from authoritative references.