Every bike in the bike lane should make drivers happy. That’s a few seconds they might be saving on their drive. Every bit of research shows adding lanes doesn’t seriously make commutes faster, but removing competing traffic surely does.
Every driver wishes the driver in front of him rides a bike instead.
Every bike in the bike lane should make drivers happy.
This. This every time. I don’t know how anyone can ignore this fact.
Even cyclists want to see sidewalks (for pedestrians) when pedestrians are walking in bike lanes because there’s nowhere else to walk.
Drivers should want cyclists off the road or in their own lane, as not to be in conflict.
I’ve noticed drivers seem to think solely about how much money the city spends on them and how much space they get. Car infrastructure is so comically expensive they feel threatened by even a penny going to other modes of transportation, and it’s so comically space inefficient they lose their minds when even a meter of the street width isn’t exclusively dedicated to them.
They also seemingly assume that because they would never choose anything other than their car, no one will. So many of the anti-transit/cycling comments are along the lines of “why would anyone choose to bike/take transit when a car is so much more convenient?”
Asking them to think of transportation as a whole as being an interconnected system is asking too much. Car infrastructure never benefit anyone else so they assume no other infrastructure can possibly benefit them.
Also, there’s a vocal minority of car drivers that just hate everyone not in a car (usually they call them “woke” which should give you an idea of who they are) and will choose to screw them over even if it also screws themselves over.
If drivers were forced to pay the true cost of their car-centric infrastructure, nobody would be able to afford it.
Unless you live in a city/country where transportation is diversified with an emphasis on active and public transportation, I can almost guarantee that your city is running a budget deficit because of car infrastructure.
“Every bike in a bike lane is a bike, making the community better”
- me, a bitch who has to drive a car because of my location, who wishes they could ride a bike instead when they have to leave the house
