The bike lane fad is dying. Installing them in places where the community didn’t ask for them was always a foolish attempt to appease a fringe group of people who have broader anti-car ideology. The bike lanes snarl traffic. They make emergency responses harder. They make snowplowing and street sweeping harder. They appeal only to a small subset of the demographic. And worst of all, they go unused in places like Toronto and Chicago that have bad weather most of the year. Not all bike lanes are bad but at this point all the low hanging fruit in terms of practical places for them has been picked. What’s left was passed over. So the overzealous DSAs with degrowth agendas in mind need to hunt and search for new locations. And they almost always end up choosing badly. They flew too close to the sun and the sun has melted their wings.