The idiots are building bike paths everywhere...and funding moronic urban mass transit.
In my rural county there is a bike path on a road going literally nowhere to nowhere. The bike path starts well outside of town (dangerous to get to it). The bike ends abruptly as the road turns into a narrow two lane country road with speed limit 45 (most go 50+). The only reason for such stupidity is federal money with strings attached. You can thank our RINO congressman who always brags about the pork he pulls in and the stupid voters who fall for it.
In my area, they just spent $200 million on an 8 mile stretch of road which bypasses a very congested section. It's a great improvement, but not only did they include bike lanes on the shoulders of the road itself, but they threw in a separate 14 foot wide road (a "shared use path") in parallel with the main road for pedestrians and slower cyclists. Needless to say, the main road sees plenty of traffic, but you rarely see anyone on the bike lanes or the separate road.