The problem with bike in US is that everybody drives, the roads were initially designed for cars, not bikes. Simply converting part of a drive lane to a bike la

The problem with bike in US is that everybody drives, the roads were initially designed for cars, not bikes. Simply converting part of a drive lane to a bike lane makes cars and bikes still share the road, which is very unsafe. Blind spots can easily cause accidents because of the shared-road bike lane design. Some downtown streets are already narrow enough, still the stupid city planning squeeze a bike lane into them and put more risk to bikers. The safe way to make bike lane is separating drive lanes and bike lanes with strip traffic island that can't be crossed. I used to work at Madison, WI for a while. Their bike lanes are completely separated and isolated by grass or tree traffic island from drive lanes. No wonder Madison claims itself the most bike-friendly city in US.