The vast majority of federal bike lane funds are misappropriated. For instance, in my local city, speaking directly with a planner, they wanted to install parking meters as a tax raising effort. They couldn't afford it, so on the random streets they wanted parking meters on, they got federal grants to "add bike lanes" and so now there's this random set of block-long bike lanes that helped pay for the changes needed to install parking meters.
In other cases, the city wanted to direct traffic somewhere else, so they installed block-long bike lanes as a traffic calming measure. No actual plan to make these useful or studies done on effective placement, just purely to reduce car volume.
What you're left with is a patchwork of non-sensical bike lines that don't really get you anywhere, subsidized for by federal funds, used against the spirit of what they should be doing: making bike commutes practical.
However that isn't the real priority of the city.
amanaplanacanal•14m ago
Just more of the "anything the libs like is bad" thinking. These people have invented some kind of new crossover between stupid and evil. They can't be gone soon enough.
exabrial•23m ago
The vast majority of federal bike lane funds are misappropriated. For instance, in my local city, speaking directly with a planner, they wanted to install parking meters as a tax raising effort. They couldn't afford it, so on the random streets they wanted parking meters on, they got federal grants to "add bike lanes" and so now there's this random set of block-long bike lanes that helped pay for the changes needed to install parking meters.
In other cases, the city wanted to direct traffic somewhere else, so they installed block-long bike lanes as a traffic calming measure. No actual plan to make these useful or studies done on effective placement, just purely to reduce car volume.
What you're left with is a patchwork of non-sensical bike lines that don't really get you anywhere, subsidized for by federal funds, used against the spirit of what they should be doing: making bike commutes practical.
However that isn't the real priority of the city.