From the cab - a HGV drivers view

why?

Not link whoring but sometimes it's easier to repost from the blog:

Cycle lanes are convenient for motorists, not cyclists
1.11.09 by Buffalo Bill

 ‘The bikeway system was designed for the convenience of motorists –  the safety arguments are bunkum,’ says [John Forester](http://bit.ly/3lVjK1), in  this [L.A. Times article](http://bit.ly/1hRgBr).
  John Franklin, author of [Cyclecraft](http://bit.ly/2x42my),  probably the most authoritative book on riding a bike, reckons that [INDENT]         it seems that the first cycle paths were to meet the needs of  cyclists in terms of comfort and ease of riding. Soon after road  standards improved, however, the motive for building tracks changed to  one of getting cyclists out of the way of motor traffic. Only in the  Netherlands does there seem to have remained a pro-cycling reason for  building paths.  There is little evidence of cyclists demanding cycle  paths for reasons of safety until the 1970s; indeed much of the  opposition to using paths in earlier years was on account of the added  danger present.
 [/INDENT][from [A History of Cycle Paths](http://bit.ly/16jhjB)]
  My own opposition to cycle lanes or paths, or super-highways, as the  Mayor of London likes to call them, is [a matter of record](http://bit.ly/2ye8yZ)