Your description matches a bike lane near my home too. But it's been there for a few years now, is connected with others and people have learned, and last time

Your description matches a bike lane near my home too. But it's been there for a few years now, is connected with others and people have learned, and last time I was there there were more bikes than cars. So it might well actually be progress. But you don't really see it until the last few of the n lanes that form a network have been built and people have grown used to it.