Paul.Bike

and Summer begins!

It has created a culture that "roads are for cars" and anything else whether it is bicycles, pedestrians, even buses or motorcycles, are borrowing road surface from "normal" drivers and that it is a net detriment to drivers.

Cycling pulls competing traffic off of the roads. Bike lanes, assuming a robust cycle network and not just a shitty patch of random dangerous bike lanes, actually REDUCE traffic. This has been clearly demonstrated in cities like Minneapolis, Portland, Montreal, London, Paris, basically any city in the Netherlands, etc...

People see "Cyclist" as a type of person rather than just people choosing an alternative mode of transportation because cycle infrastructure has been so bad for so long in many cities that the only people doing it for decades were douchey graduate educated middle aged men in lycra shorts.

Ad by the Cycle Trades of America on Warren Street, 1920s.