Give it up CTAC. You can provide stats, pictures, personal experience and iron-clad proof and those knuckleheads will still continue to disbelieve that bike lanes actually help people.

Of course, every now and then they'll admit they can be helpful and when you call them on it, they scurry under the carpet again like good little cockroaches.

I can see how that second bike lane configuration would help one negotiate freeway interchanges, and how that would probably work better than the typical no-man's land situation in the first drawing.