> But those things are anti-car. They come at the cost of travel speed or congestion as a result of fewer lanes. They're thereby something you have to fight the

> But those things are anti-car. They come at the cost of travel speed or congestion as a result of fewer lanes. They're thereby something you have to fight the masses in order to get, instead of finding a Pareto-optimal solution that can thereby actually be implemented. At the cost of parking, possibly. At the cost of travel speed, possibly. At the cost of congestion, unlikely. All of the proposals for bike lanes that I have seen have typically involved the removal of parking or the narrowing of lanes. The former typically happens where there is not enough space to use parked vehicles as a barrier between lanes for motor vehicles and bicycles. The latter is typically intentional, since narrow lanes are a mechanism for traffic calming. Neither should be classified as anti-car. Bike lanes typically run along roads that are mixed use. They aren't found on side streets since they don't address the safety issues found on side streets. (Side streets may be designated a bike route, but I have never seen a separation of traffic.) They are rarely found on roads since roads are intended to serve high speed traffic travelling long distances. There are usually better solutions for cyclists in that case. The end result is that bike lanes are usually placed along business corridors (e.g. those main drags), where traffic calming benefits all users. Parking is often less of an issue in those cases since those businesses couldn't be sustained by the limited parking available to start with. Cyclists are not out there battling against cars. It simply doesn't make sense. Many of the places that cars go are undesirable to cyclists. Many of the places that cyclists want to go are better served when accommodations are made for multiple modes of transportation. If you choose to interpret that as anti-car, well, there isn't much I can do about that aside from pointing out that it is not the intent and rarely the outcome.