In isolated cases, he kinda has a point.

For instance, in Toronto, some new bike lanes were recently installed in my girlfriend's old neighbourhood, a neighbourhood in the vice-like grips of Italian and Portugeuse car culture. On her old street, for instance, her parents are the only people left who still have a tree in their front yard, everyone else paved over their yards to make room for, you guessed it, more cars.

Now, with one fewer car lane, it's completely gridlocked. A total disaster.

Maybe the city thought they would encourage the car-crazy neighbourhood to ride their bikes more often if the infrastructure was there. I hope they're not that stupid. Maybe they purposely picked a neighbourhood where bike lanes would be a disaster to engender hostility towards bicycle advocacy to avoid having to create more bike lanes where we really need them. I hope they're not that evil.

I'm all for bike lanes, but we have to be smart about it.

This guy is still a total ass, though. I hope he dies soon.