XzEn54321 - have you read this thread?

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=82599

I know it's long, but it has some great stuff in it about bike lanes.

I'm generally opposed to bike lanes, except on freeways. Here's my reasoning:

1. Bike lane proponents who think that bike lanes give cyclists more room confuse lane width with bike lanes. Consider any road with a bike lane. Removal of the bike lane means removal of the stripe - the pavement remains. Such a "wide outside curb lane" is far preferable to a narrower main lane and a bike lane within the same space delineated with a painted stripe for the reasons that follow.
2. All but the best-designed bike lanes make cycling less safe. Even the rare well-designed bike lanes don't make cycling safer. The government has been forced to stop claiming bike lanes make cycling safer years ago, but the notion that they do remains (unfortunately, even many cyclists still believe it, and, so, demand more and more of them).
3. Experienced/trained/educated cyclists don't need bike lanes, for they know to ignore them and choose their lane positioning based on all kinds of conditions. Sometimes that may put them in the bike lane, sometimes it doesn't, but the existence of the bike lane stripe makes no difference. In other words, you ignore the stripe and treat it like a wide outside curb lane.
4. Novice cyclists, motorists and law enforcement officers are mislead by bike lanes into thinking that proper and appropriate lateral lane positioning for a cyclist is a static issue, when, in fact, it is a constant dynamic process. The cyclist riding in traffic needs to be constantly evaluating current conditions and making his lateral lane position decisions accordingly. Factors to consider include: speed and volume of traffic, the cyclist's speed, ambient light, weather, road conditions, cyclist's destination, etc. etc. These factors are constantly changing. The idea that a static facility like a bike lane could delineate a cyclist's proper and appropriate position is wrong and dangerous in and of itself. The very existence of each and every bike lane screams this misguided lesson.
5. Novice cyclists, motorists and law enforcement officers improperly trained by the very existence of bike lanes on roads with bike lanes that proper and appropriate lateral lane positioning for a cyclist can be delineated in a static fashion is then applied even on roads where there are no bike lanes, where novice cyclists think they are required to keep to the right regardless of the conditions, and where motorists and police officers expect them to.
6. Motorist travel sweeps puncture and crash causing debris off the roadway. When no cyclists are present on the roadway, motorists tend to travel, at least sometimes, even near the right edge, thus sweeping that area as well. Unless, of course, if a bike lane stripe is present, in which all the debris is swept into... the bike lane. In other words, bike lanes suck.