Originally Posted by patc
How about "Express Lane to reward Bike Commuters"?
(Yeah, I know, shame on me for contributing to HH's waste of bandwidth, but that's really how I see bike lanes, and how they really are to anyone without a chip on their shoulders.)
I'm guessing you have a lot of dense/slow urban traffic in Ottawa?
In southern cal, bike lanes are mostly (not entirely) about getting cyclists out of the way of faster motorists.
Very rarely are they useful as express lanes for passing motorists, much less as express lanes where motorists can be passed safely at a reasonable cycling speed.