Flutterby™! : Bike lanes

Biking in LA: Guest post: Taking the lane — a CyclingSavvy instructor explains her objection to bike lanes:

We need to recognize a simple fact about bike lanes. They tend to make the people in them irrelevant to other traffic. When you are not in the way, you are irrelevant. At low speed differentials, irrelevancy might be OK. But at high speed differentials, the slightest motorist error can be devastating.