Bicycle boxes like proposed in Figure 1 where bicyclists can cut in front of motorists will only create more friction and conflict between motorists and bicyclists, and only adds to the arrogance of bicyclists who think they own the streets but are freeloading pedal pushers when it comes to paying for the infrastructure. There are already too many obsessive over protections, special privileges and immunities, including the lack of financial responsibility, given to bicyclists. Providing specialized bicycle infrastructure on city streets is a privilege given to the bicyclists exclusively – it should be directly paid for by bicyclists exclusively.

Figure 2 makes sense for some locations with Figure 3 and 4 the norm, if bike lanes remain, There also should be some locations where “YIELD” (to other traffic) signs need to be painted in the middle of bike lanes. Slower bike only speeds need to be posted and enforced on the Interstate Avenue hill. Additionally, there needs to be much greater enforcement including stings when it comes to bicyclists obeying the rules of the road. As an example of need, KGW TV did a piece on bike safety (filmed before the latest round of crashes) where they let their camera roll for five minutes at a STOP sign intersection in Ladd’s Edition. 36 bicyclists rode right past the stop sigh while about five cars did rolling (California) stops. The real story however was not stated. It is highly likely that 36 out of 36 bicyclists blew through the STOP sign while the five cars were but a percentage of the total number.