Kulturkampf

[simiansmarts]

Serious talk about bike lanes: i'd be fine with them except they seem to be completely inconsistent in the US. 

Randomly a whole car lane transforms into a dedicated bike lane on the other side of an intersection.
Bike lanes at the edge of the road, except when they are mysteriously in the middle of two lanes.
Sometimes not really labled, so just a mysterious skinny unmarked lane that appears and disappears arbitrarily.

And most of all, the issue is that no one is ever using them. I see plenty of cyclists, but they're usually on the sidewalks or in the regular car lanes. So I'm sort of always on tenterhooks that the one daring soul willing to use these fuckass lanes will silently glide into my blind spot on a random tuesday and then I will accidentally splat them while making a left turn...becuase I'm never checking for cyclists, because once again, no one is ever using these lanes.

Imagine trying to work that shit out as a cyclist with drivers borderline trying to kill you. That's why most of us avoid the bike lanes.