'Space for cycling' protest ride 2nd September

In the end I'd be happy to sacrifice my freedom to charge around town at high speed if it meant that a greater proportion of the population could use bikes just to get around, even if that means they're slow and chaotic.

^this. It's a point that quite often gets lost in the debate but people who argue against segregation are often those who already cycle on the road, who are happy enough (and I stress "enough") with the way things are to be cycling now. On forums like this, there is the slight undertone that people don't want bike paths because they don't want to be prevented from caning it round town playing brakeless car-slalom. Well, tough shit. The road isn't your private velodrome any more than it's Jeremy Clarkson's private racetrack. Putting in bike lanes not only makes cycling feasible for the old/young/slow/fat/lazy but also makes towns cleaner, quieter, safer and just generally nicer for all the time that you're not on a bike, which is most of the time.