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elswick
Query about London bike lanes from anecdotal observation; I regularly go up and down the Jamaica road bike lane and am looking forward to the Lower Road extension which is largely built. While I am of course glad for the existence of the bike lanes making my commuting a lot safer, I do often wonder about how the council justifies the use of road space/expenditure of public funds to drivers - whenever I go down the road outside of peak hours, I often see 10 cars queued (or driving along) for every other bike I see. What is the general argument for justifying the allocation of space and funds to cycling given what seems to be the comparative lack of beneficiaries?
Is the idea to build a large enough network to give more people the confidence to get on bikes en masse a la the Netherlands, because that seems like a pipe dream to me?