[ahi]

I absolutely hate bike lanes. The city I live in prides itself on being bike friendly, partly because of all of its bike lanes, but all the bike lanes are just painted onto sections of roads that have wide enough shoulders that they are completely unnecessary. A lot of them just stop for a couple hundred feet because they ran out of shoulder and the bike lane was an after thought. So now I have useless bike lanes and drivers yelling at me for riding my bike in the street where there isn't a bike lane.

[pyre]

True, but people that swerve into the bike lanes (where they exist) are performing a road rules no-no in that they have not stayed within their lines. 'Peer pressure' is for drivers to stay out of the bike lanes, so where bike lanes do exist, there is a bit of a layer of protection vs. just a large shoulder.