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  • Bike lanes are car infrastructure. Bike lanes exist to segregate cars and bikes, so that bikes are safer and cars can go faster. But the only reason bikes are unsafe on the streets, is because car drivers want to go fast and refuse to obey the law. So by transitive property, bike lanes exist so cars can go faster and so cars can go faster.

    If you remove cars from the street, or force them to slow down, then bike lanes aren’t needed. In the Netherlands, many streets with successful traffic calming are removing their bike lanes, because there are so few cars, going so slowly, even an 8 year old can safely cycle in the street.

    This is what the world looks like when we don’t let car drivers hoon through our neighbourhoods by threatening everyone else. We never needed bike lanes. It was always for the cars.