After reading much of the arguments for and against, I have decided to switch sides and join those who are against bike lanes and, in particular, mandatory bike lanes.

In fact, I am willing to ignore what seems to me to be obvious advantages of an uncluttered lane that allows me to travel safer or easier, because getting to work faster without as many near-collissions has been shown to be merely an illusion, a misperception. As such, I am fully prepared to dismiss all my own experiences and observations that confirm the many attractions of bike lanes. I am taking a leap of faith and will contradict what I knopw personally to be true.

But I will not stop there. I have seen other inequalities that demand the same determined and adamant crusade. I will vigorously rail against toddlers on tricycles being restricted to sidewalks because they are seemingly safer and I will challenge those parents who insist on attaching those bars to the rear of those tricycles and other wheeled toys, so they can prevent the kids from going where they have every right to go and that is anywhere their little hearts please.

Wheelchairs, elderly people on scooters, skateboarders, ski-boarders, roller-skaters, street-luge's and any other kind of wheeled contraption you can think of shall soon have equal, unrestricted access to the road, because if they don't they're drinking out of a segregated fountain and that just isn't right.

And finally, my greatest triumph will be when I deliver the oppressed pedestrian off the sidewalk he has been legally segrated to and introduce him and her to the wide-open spaces of the main road, the grand avenue, the vast boulevards and freedom! Freedom for all! Walk where-ever you want to walk brother!

Cars won't have to be restricted to the lanes either. No no no. It has to be equal for all: they can drive on the sidewalks if they want to so long as they do it safely. And same thing for those toddlers, grannies, physically-challenged folks, skate-boarders, sail-boarders, ski-boarders, street-luger's and pogo-stick bouncers: they have to operate their vehicle predictably and obseve all the regulations that cars must....hey....why should they? Don't those stop signs and red-lights legally segregate us from those who are able to go?