Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?

Like you sit in traffic for an hour each day to work. Wouldn’t you want to halve that by having more other people use bicycles instead?

  • Firoaren@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Having been a dumb kid growing up in bumrucksville, I’ll add this too: Congnitive load.

    You have to learn to cope with something new. Driving sucks, other drivers suck, you’re telling me I have to drive in a two lane which could become one lane at any moment? I have to watch for faster pedestrians? “Isn’t the sidewalk for bikes, why do they need the road??”, then not realizing sidewalks aren’t properly flat enoigh and mixing bikes with walkers on a 3ft wide space is as stupid as the rest of stroad design to mix pedestrians and cars.

    Nah, sounds like too much work, bikers can drive like the rest of us, “keeps everyone safer” or whatever you wanna tell yourself without thinking further. Too much work to re-evaluate.