The left doesn’t want you to drive as it increases your mobility and therefore ability to improve your life on your own.
I’ve always thought pushing bikes into vehicular traffic is reckless and irresponsible, like all leftist concepts.
Bike lanes, et al, are not about safety - they’re about making it more difficult to drive and move things in the direction of point one above.
If it were about safety, they’d be putting bikes on sidewalks.
A collision between a vehicle and a bike is much more likely to result in a fatality than a collision between a bike and a pedestrian.
So if they were interested in safety, you wouldn’t see a bike lane in traffic, but beyond the curb and next to the sidewalk.
I saw that all the time in Maryland. Muddy Branch Road in Gaithersburg has a bike lane on each side, but the cyclists still use the sidewalk. They know.