Al,
Thank you for trying to explain your post and I know what you mean. But I stand by my statements regarding 98% of the cyclists around here. You said the bicycle lanes don't go where the cyclists want to go. These go right along side the streets and cars are not allowed in them except when turning. And I have never seen a bicycle in them in the two years since they were built. They still insist on riding two to six deep in the center of the road. Since the lanes are along side the street, where could these idiots want to go that the lane doesn't? I try to stay as far away from traffic as possible and if I do have to ride on a street where there is no shoulder I get as far over to the edge as I can and try to listen for traffic so I can be ready to let them by. They even built a combination skateboard/bicycle area with concrete jumps and the whole works here a few years ago as they were complaining they had no place to practice. After ruining a big piece of the local park and wasting millions, the bicyclists still haul plywood and steel steel stands out in the streets and parking lots to do their so called practicing and I hardly ever see one of them at the place they all cried to have built. I do see the skateboarders using their part a lot.
Ron