Originally Posted by
oladub
The problems include all the people who are too old or lame to ride bicycles and the rainy, very hot, and wintry days when not many would like to bicycle not to mention night time. Another problem is that, using the previous numbers, the 7,500 cars are forced to use two fewer lanes. This has all the appeal of going through a road construction zone in which two lanes are under construction and four lanes of traffic are reduced to two. What happens in the winter, when almost everyone is back in their warm car and 8,000 cars are now funneled into two lanes instead of four because the other lanes have been sacrificed to hypothetical fair weather bicyclists? I'm not necessarily against bike lanes because they would make sense if the number of people using them approached the number useing the remaining motorist lanes. From an ecological perspective, a lot of energy is required to build and maintain traffic lanes. If those lanes are not well utilized, they are energy sink holes.