Maybe you can answer the question as to why bicyclists inevitably ignore the bike lanes to spread out into the traffic lanes going 30 mph below the speed limit making a hazard and nuisance of themselves and why they don’t feel that they have to obey traffic signals yet claim to want to “share the road.”
The bike lane is where the broken glass of car drivers’ thrown beer bottles collects that pops your tire. Bike lanes would make sense if the city swept the streets much at all. Real bicyclists prefer no bike lanes whatsoever, and secondary roads.
Muscle power limits speed necessarily. Bummer. But I like it when cars pass me with alacrity. I hate it when they hang back in my blind spot.
I obey traffic signals when cars are involved, because they have a ton of steel designed to kill me. But when other people are not involved, I blow every law on the books. I’m kinda libertarian that way. If the cops want to write me a ticket, go for it. The costs / benefit relationship tells me to blow the red light when nobody is around. I’m taking my own life into my hands.
The opposing problem of bikes going too slow, as you point out, is that biking is a momentum preservation game. So, when you get up a good head of steam, you want to keep it going. If you blow a red light in order to stay at 15 MPH, rather than coming to a dead stop, you do it if nobody is going to be inconvenienced or endangered.
Many bikers go further than I do and make boneheaded moves that do endanger themselves and others, and inconvenience others. So do car drivers, as you may have noticed. I’ve had plenty of poor drivers cause me to take massive evasive action. It’s a two way street that way.
So, if both drivers and bicyclists drive well and avoid confrontation when in each others presence, it should work out.
How’s that?
:-)