Originally Posted by Helmet Head
Well, well. Perhaps it's time to retire. There is nothing I can add here except to give kudos to noisebeam, derath, galen, joejack and CommuterRun for the salient points they made.
And if the implications of CTAC's comments don't make obvious the serious false-sense-of-security issues that come with bike lanes, I suppose nothing will.
I agree with you that your retirement is long overdue.
In the example I provided I can actually see cars yielding to the bicyclists just because of the markings and signage. All you have is complete speculations.
You are claiming that there is 'unadvertent drift' because motorist are saying that they did not see anything? Think about that:
"I saw him, but that jerk should have jumped outta my way" - manslaughter
"I saw him, but I thought it is okay to sqeeze in" - reckless driving
"I did not see him" - accident
What answer would the motorist choose from the listed above?