Mr. Smooth (aka Michael Wallis) Supports Bike Boxes with Educational Video

First it was the "just raise your hand if you want to cross the street" and now we have the the invisible force field green boxes. So someone coming from Eastern Oregon or East Overshoe, Maryland is going to know that? All of these ridiculous rules that you people make up just give bicyclists a false sense of security. I am waiting for the inevitable fatality because someone from out of town didn't get the memo.

I am not against having a safe and viable environment for bicyclists. However you can't make intersections and narrow streets that are dangerous even for automobiles safe for bicycles just because City Hall decreed it.

From reading some of the bicyclists that wrote in on the original Sam Adams blog site, none of them want any of the things being done for them bad enough to pay taxes for it. I don't want another cent of my taxes going for this ill planned, dangerous and expensive venue that a tiny fraction of the people use.

How do we know that bike boxes are a hit? Was a study or survey done? I'd like to hear about it, if so. I presume that they're a hit with the BTA crowd, but not everyone who bikes supports the BTA (myself included) or this idea. I don't think there will ever be safety for bicyclists until bikes and cars are on separate paths. Until then, bike paths and bike boxes are devices that create illusions but not the reality of safety.
If we're really concerned about safety, we ought to be banning parents from pulling their infants and toddlers around in those bike carriages. Those same parents would be punished and fined if they took those same children into a car with no safety devices, and a car has air bags and steel barriers to protect them. The bike carriage has nothing - just fabric and plastic. I wonder how any parent in good conscience can put their children into one of those and then enter traffic where cars and trucks are moving around them. More to the point, why don't the same people who advocate and mandate car seats for kids ban this reckless and dangerous practice? Are we waiting for the first innocent to be smashed, God forbid, in the name of bike advocacy?